Starring Anna Botsford
November 6 at 7:00 pm
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When Joan’s mathematician husband takes a job at a hedge fund in New York, she decides to quit her tenure-track position at Berkeley, pack up their four-year-old son and join him in the City. What follows is a collision with a world of wealth, privilege, and seductive compromise — and a decision that will alter the course of her life and the lives of everyone around her.
The Playground is an award-winning one-woman play with voices, written and directed by Jim Dalglish and performed by Anna Botsford. Told entirely from Joan’s perspective, the play weaves memory, regret, and dark humor into a searching examination of integrity, ambition, and the human cost of looking the other way.
The Cape Cod Times called it “the most intense 100 minutes of your life.” Anna Botsford was praised as “one of the most incredible actors I have ever seen.”
Anna Botsford holds a BFA in Theatre Education from Emerson College and has appeared in productions including A Doll’s House (Cotuit Center for the Arts) and Portraiture (Helltown Players). She is a two-time winner of Best Actress for the Broadway World Awards for Grounded, and an IRNE Award nominee for her work in Unsafe. Anna is the IB Theatre teacher and STAGE Director at Sturgis Charter Public School West Campus, and a founding member of ASA Theatre Company on Cape Cod.
Jim Dalglish holds an MFA in playwriting from Brown University, where he studied under Paula Vogel, and has had more than 30 plays produced domestically and internationally. He is the Producing Artistic Director of Helltown Players, a nonprofit theater collaborative based on Cape Cod.
Anna Botsford (Actor)
Jim Dalglish (Playwright, Director, Producer)
Helltown Players (Producing Organization)
Eli Woods (Soundtrack)
Voices:
Zack Johnson (Will)
Michael Becrelis (Billy)
Sara Bleything (Ashley)
Shepard Potash (Cyrus)
Natalia Molina Marín (Gracia)
Janet Geist Moore (Anthropology Professor)
Samantha McMahon (Britney #1)
Missy Potash (Britney #2)
Susanna Creel (Britney #3)
Eli Woods (Man’s Voice)
Sawyer Potash (Roger)
Kristen Winn (Roger’s Mother)
Fiona Botsford (Little Girl)
Karin Henderson (Professor’s Daughter #1)
Kelly Rowen (Professor’s Daughter #2)
Emma Engelsen (Professor’s Daughter #3)
Luz Adriana Marín (Gracia’s Mother)
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UNITED SOLO* is the world’s largest solo theatre festival. For twenty seasons, it has presented the very best in solo performance from around the globe. Founded by Omar Sangare with the mission of uniting a diverse community of artists passionate about storytelling in all its forms, the festival has grown into an internationally recognized platform for singular voices. From its home base at Theatre Row in the heart of New York City’s Theatre District, United Solo has presented over 2,000 productions. With festivals held each fall and spring, it continues to champion both emerging and established artists, bringing powerful and distinctive stories to audiences in New York City and beyond.
