Lewiston High School’s drama club, Centre Stage Ensemble (CSE), is presenting three one act plays for everyone’s enjoyment at the Lewiston Middle School auditorium on Central Avenue on November 30th, December 1st, and 2nd. The three shows are Way, Way Down East, The Face is Familiar, and Stage Bore. Show time for these comical shows is 7:30 PM. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for Students/Seniors.

Way, Way Down East, a melodrama, is a classic hero and villain story told by Narrator (Rebecca Spilecki). The Ludlow family and their farmhand Henrietta (Ma’ame Bonsu) need to come up with a mortgage payment in order to not lose the farm. The villainous Tedious J. Impossible (Ernest Brown) wants to take the Ludlow’s Farm and sell it for a profit. The family is waiting to hear news from Bertram J. Moneybags (Renald Lefebvre), a wealthy railroad owner, on whether he can use the invention of Ronald Fitzwilliam (Chris Hodgkin), Lily Ludlow’s (Anna Smedley), the beautiful heroine, handsome hero and beau. Meanwhile, Lily, the daughter of Ezekiel (Brian McKewon) and Hepzibah Ludlow (Rachel Spilecki), is captured for overhearing Impossible’s plan as he tells them to his sidekick, William P. McNasty (Matt Reed). Does Lily escape?

The second of three one acts is The Face is Familiar. This classical farce is set in and 1895 prep school. Joel Baxter (Ernest Brown) and his friend Harold Robins (Matt Reed) cannot have dates with Celia (Michele Fortier) and Marie (Amanda Martin) unless they have a chaperone. Joel’s Cousin Clarice (Elsje Schipper) suddenly cannot come, leaving Joel minus one chaperone on the day he wants to propose to Celia. He convinces his roommate Wally Pearson (Renald Lefebvre), who is dressed up as a woman for a costume party, to act as his cousin and chaperone for the afternoon. But what happens when their Dean Bigelow (Brian McKewon) starts to woo “Cousin Clarice”?

Lastly is Stage Bore. Stage Bore presents the archetype theater story of a young actress, Sally Thespis (Rachel Spilecki), and her friend Millie Mildew (Ruth Choate), who are trying to make it into the business. In the actors’ boarding house they live in, kooky characters bring a definitive theater dynamic with Hunter Havahart (Renald Lefebvre), a washed-up ham actor, and Mrs. Hammer (Jessica Fortin), the boarding house owner who tried to make it in the show biz but her sweet tooth kept her in the chorus line. How will Sally Thespis get the role of “understudy” for Katherine LeGrand (Ashley McWhorter), the veteran Broadway diva, if she does not hire any pretty ones? If she gets the job, how will she get on stage since Zenobia (Tchotcho Teko), LeGrand’s maid, says that LeGrand has barely ever missed a performance? Will Bill Borden (Chris Hodgkin), the stage manager who set the job for Sally, get pushed out of her spotlight and her heart?

You will just have to come to see how these plays turn out. Not only have the actors put in many hours of their time but so has the production staff. Richard Martin returns again as director, set designer, and light designer. Rachel Spilecki produces all three with stage manager Shawn McKewon, assistant stage manager Carter Handy, costume designer Doreen Traynor, props master Susan Iadevaia-Jalbert, publicist Kelin Sevit, and hair designer Cheryl Morin. Hope you enjoy the show!