See a play – win a quilt

Marrying quilts with staged readings of local plays, the Morgan Arts Council presents Piecework on Mothers Day weekend at the Ice House in Berkeley Springs. For the fourth year, local writers and actors offer three one-act staged readings featuring quilts. Local quilters, in turn, create a pair of small quilts to go with each play. Audience member tickets provide both admission to a performance and a chance on winning one of the quilts.

"The Devil Does the Salsa" is an inventive and humorous play by Sally Brinkman with James Worley reading the title role. Also reading are Sharon Carpenter-Rose, Jane McCloud and Jacque Delbaugh. Bea Jakubowski wrote another installment of the popular comic birding adventures of Betty and Donna called "Search of the Yellow-Winged Warbler." Readers are Sharon Carpenter-Rose, Jane McCloud, Tim Smailes and Jacque Delbaugh. "Mothers of Invention" is this year's play by Maureen Mylander read by Kaiti Larue, Nativa Kesecker and Desiree Rose.

"The mini-quilts are as exciting as the plays," said Abbie Brown who directs the project. Joyce Bancroft and Mary Myers made the quilt for "Devil," Tamar Wallace and Jane Frenke made "Mothers of Invention," and Marilyn Moser and Barbara Lynn for "Warbler."

Showtimes for Piecework are Saturday, May 8 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, May 9 at 3 p.m. Three quilts will be given to lucky ticket holders in the audience each day. Additional tickets for the quilts may be purchased. No reservations are being taken for the shows and seating is on a first come basis.

Piecework is the theatrical part of Berkeley Springs' immersion into quilts during the month of May. In addition to the staged readings, people can see the annual Delectable Mountains Quilt Show and Sale at the Ice House Gallery every Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. throughout the month. In addition, there are 42 Yard Square quilts hanging in businesses and public buildings around town. These quilts are to be auctioned live at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 30 at the Ice House.
For more information call 304-258-2300.