Artistic Director Tucker Atwood, front, announces the 2025 Belfast Maskers’ season at an annual meeting of volunteers. In back, from left, are Angelina Nichols, Andrea Butler, Mike Nickerson and Julia Olson. Photo by Gwyneth Sauvage

BELFAST — The new Artistic Director Tucker Atwood unveiled the 2025 season of Belfast Maskers productions on Nov. 14. Atwood announced the shows, and their respective directors, to an audience of Belfast Maskers volunteers and Board members in the Basil Burwell Community Theater.

The company plans to produce four full-length plays, a musical comedy, and a festival of one-act plays.

The season will open with “Becky’s New Car,” a play by Steven Dietz, directed by Midcoast director Erik Perkins. The play will open March 7. “It’s essentially a farce, reimagined; it breaks the mold in more ways than one,” said Perkins. Auditions for the show are set for 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, and at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 9.

Following “Becky’s New Car” will be the multiple award-winning, genre-defying, and mind-bending mystery “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” a play by Simon Stephens based on the novel of the same name by Mark Haddon. Stephanie Natale Frus will direct.

Atwood, himself an accomplished playwright, announced that the One Acts will return and exclusively feature Maine playwrights in 2025. “I want to help people who are in my shoes, Maine playwrights looking to get their work out there, because I know there is incredible talent right here in our beautiful state. Look for an announcement soon for more information on the submission process.” The directors will be Cassidy Small, Zafra Whitcomb, Angelina Nichols, and Olivia West. The inaugural Maine Playwrights One Act Festival will span two weekends, with the first weekend being presented cabaret style with food and libations served at tables and the second weekend in their standard raked theater seating.

Atwood will direct a ragtag crew of funny musical theater folks in ‘Twisted,’ a poignant and romantic retelling of the tale of Aladdin from the
viewpoint of Aladdin’s misunderstood antagonist Jafar.

Director, Meg Nickerson met with playwright Travis Baker to discuss his play “One Blue Tarp,” a story of a man, his tarp and people “from away” trying to take it away.

The final show of the 2025 season is “Puffs (or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic).” Directed by
Gwyneth Sauvage, the play follows students in an overlooked house in a famous fictional wizarding world. Sauvage was visibly hyped to make the announcement and started recruiting her cast for the play that will open a year from now.

Atwood also revealed plans, in their formative stages, for opportunities for younger actors to learn and perform with the Maskers in 2025, as
well as developmental opportunities for current and future Maskers volunteers.

All Belfast Maskers productions will be presented at the Basil Burwell Community Theater, 17 Court St.

For more information visit belfastmaskers.com.

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