Portraiture Hits the Road: Cotuit and Provincetown Up Next!
After a critically acclaimed world premiere at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Helltown Players’ production of Portraiture, written and directed by Margaret Van Sant, is hitting the road—with performances next at Cotuit Center for the Arts and WOMR’s Davis Space in Provincetown.
This sharp, funny, and moving new play imagines what might happen if three legendary women—Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and Mabel Dodge Luhan—suddenly step out of their portraits and demand a rewrite of the stories history has told about them.
In a glowing review, Boston Spirit Magazine writes:
“Portraiture gives contemporary audiences a thoroughly entertaining opportunity to see how the lives of three brilliant, trailblazing women not only changed the course of history, but continue to inform and impact contemporary culture. Exactly what our troubled world needs right now.” Read the full review >>
Next Stops for Portraiture
Cotuit Center for the Arts
Sigel Black Box Theater
4404 Falmouth Rd, Cotuit, MA 02635
Showtimes:
May 22–24 (Thurs.–Sat.) at 7:30 PM
May 29–31 (Thurs.–Sat.) at 7:30 PM
June 1 (Sun.) at 2:00 PM
Tickets: COTUIT TICKETS>>
WOMR Provincetown
Davis Space (2nd Floor)
494 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA 02657
Showtimes:
June 5–7 (Thurs.–Sat.) at 7:00 PM
Tickets: WOMR TICKETS>>
Meet the Cast
Anna Botsford is deliciously bold as Mabel Dodge Luhan in what one reviewer called a “saucy, bravura performance.” (Boston Spirit Magazine)
Kathleen Larson Day delivers Gertrude Stein with “sharp-tongued perfection.” (Boston Spirit Magazine)
Bonnie Fairbanks brings a wealth of theatrical experience, perfect comic timing, and heart to Alice B. Toklas. She will be joining the cast May 29 - June7.
Kristin Stewart anchors the production as Sylvia Santos, an art historian caught between the past and present—“brilliantly refereeing the heated passions and personal revelations of the resurrected trio.” (Boston Spirit Magazine)
Meet the Playwright Director Margaret Van Sant
Margaret Van Sant
Playwright / Director
Margaret is the Artistic Director of Provincetown Dramatic Arts and a Trustee of Helltown Players. She established the PDA development project, the O’Neill Festival of New Works. Margaret has directed classic and contemporary theater, but has a special focus on the development of new scripts. At Long Wharf Theater she managed the Stage II program of new script development, and at the PTC she established the Playwright’s Lab and the Provincetown Playwright’s Festival. She has directed at Virginia Stage Company, Long Wharf Theater, Arena Stage, Yale University (National Conference on Portuguese Theater), Yale Cabaret, Berkshire Theater Festival, University of Massachusetts/ Dartmouth, City Studio Theater, Payomet Center for the Performing Arts, and Provincetown Theater. For the past four years she has taken a play by a Cape playwright to the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. She is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. A special thanks to Jim Dalglish, my dramaturge (who makes it fun), Helltown Players, Will and Vanessa.
Tickets Are On-Sale!
This is a funny, fearless, and beautifully acted play about legacy, art, erasure—and the power of women who refuse to be forgotten. Come see the play Cape audiences are raving about—and discover why Portraiture is a play that must be seen.
Cotuit Center for the Arts
Sigel Black Box Theater
4404 Falmouth Rd, Cotuit, MA 02635
Showtimes:
May 22–24 (Thurs.–Sat.) at 7:30 PM
May 29–31 (Thurs.–Sat.) at 7:30 PM
June 1 (Sun.) at 2:00 PM
WOMR Provincetown
Davis Space (2nd Floor)
494 Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA 02657
Showtimes:
June 5–7 (Thurs.–Sat.) at 7:00 PM
