{"id":14822,"date":"2023-02-23T12:40:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T17:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/?p=14822"},"modified":"2023-02-23T15:27:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T20:27:39","slug":"ncc-students-to-present-almost-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2023\/02\/ncc-students-to-present-almost-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"NCC Students to Present &#8220;Almost, Maine&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Almost-Maine-Eventbrite-Image-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Almost-Maine-Eventbrite-Image-1.png 2160w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Almost-Maine-Eventbrite-Image-1-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Almost-Maine-Eventbrite-Image-1-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Almost-Maine-Eventbrite-Image-1-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Almost-Maine-Eventbrite-Image-1-1536x768.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Almost-Maine-Eventbrite-Image-1-2048x1024.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Nash Community College Drama Players and Studio 67 will present &#8220;Almost, Maine&#8221; for their spring production. Tickets go on sale March 1, 2023 through Eventbrite for show-only performances on March 31 at 7:00 PM and April 2 at 2:30 PM and a dinner theatre on April 1 beginning at 5:00 PM.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"il\">Almost<\/span>,\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Maine is <\/span>a place that\u2019s so far north, it\u2019s <span class=\"il\">almost<\/span>\u00a0not in the United States. It\u2019s\u00a0<span class=\"il\">almost<\/span>\u00a0in Canada. And it\u2019s not quite a town, because its residents never got around to getting organized. So it\u00a0<span class=\"il\">almost<\/span>\u00a0doesn\u2019t exist. One cold, clear, winter night, as the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, the residents of\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Almost<\/span>,\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Maine<\/span>, find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend\u2014<span class=\"il\">almost<\/span>\u2014in this delightful midwinter night\u2019s dream.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">According to the NY Times, \u201c<span class=\"il\">ALMOST<\/span>,\u00a0<span class=\"il\">MAINE<\/span> is a series of nine amiably absurdist vignettes about love, with a touch of good-natured magic realism\u2026witty, romantic, unsentimental. A beautifully structured play, with nifty surprise endings (most but not all of them happy).\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Tickets for the show-only performances are $10 each for general admission and $8 for students. Dinner theater tickets are $30 each. Special thanks to the Culinary Arts, Hospitality Management and Broadcasting and Production Technology programs for their support of the production.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Purchase Tickets Online (Sales Begin March 1, 2023)<\/strong><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/copy-of-almost-maine-dinner-theatre-tickets-556600666577\">Dinner Theatre Tickets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/copy-of-almost-maine-show-only-tickets-556600235287\">Show Only Tickets<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Dinner Theatre Menu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the Moose Paddy! The dinner special is: Warm Your Heart Rolls, Almost Autumn Pork Loin with Cranberries, Lost in the Woods Red Bliss Potatoes, Northern Lights Sweetheart Carrots and Maine Dream Pie &#8211; <i>A Moose Paddy take on a Boston Cream Pie.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>The performances are directed by Lisa Cooper, NCC&#8217;s Department Chair for Humanities &amp; Social Sciences.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nash Community College Drama Players and Studio 67 will present &#8220;Almost, Maine&#8221; for their spring production. Tickets go on sale March 1, 2023 through Eventbrite for show-only performances on&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2023\/02\/ncc-students-to-present-almost-maine\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14822"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14887,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14822\/revisions\/14887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}