5Town Friends of the Arts will present a staged reading of David Mamet’s clever drawing- room comedy, "Boston Marriage". Diana Bigelow directs fellow Bristol thespians Susanne Peck, Kendra Gratton, and Gretchen Cole in this sophisticated and fanciful play.

Here’s the set up. Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming “women of fashion” who have long lived together on the fringes of upper-class society. Anna has just become the mistress of a wealthy man, from whom she has received an enormous emerald and an income to match. Claire, meanwhile, is infatuated with a respectable young lady and wants to enlist the jealous Anna’s help for an assignation. As the two women exchange barbs and take turns taunting Anna’s hapless Scottish parlor maid, Catherine, Claire’s young inamorata suddenly appears, setting off a crisis that puts both the valuable emerald and the women’s futures at risk. To this wickedly funny comedy, Mamet brings his trademark tart dialogue and impeccable plotting, spiced with Wildean wit.

"Boston Marriage" will be performed at 7:30pm on May 3rd, at Walkover Gallery, 15 Main St. in Bristol. Admission is by donation at the door. For mature audiences. Limited seating. Refreshments will be available.

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