Starkweather

A reading of a play by Jim Dalglish (Helltown Players Trustee)

As a finalist for the 2023 Kaplan Playwriting Competition, “Starkweather” will receive a public reading on Friday, July 14 at 7pm at WOMR Radio Station in Provincetown.

The reading is free and open to the public.

The reading of this full-length play – written by Helltown Players Founder and Trustee Jim Dalglish – will be followed by an audience talkback. This will allow the playwright to consider rewrites before the play will be submitted for final adjudication. The winner will be announced in the Fall. Dalglish was a second-place winner for the 2022 competition with his play “The Playground.” He shared the prize with Lynda Sturner for a play they coauthored (“A Talented Woman”) in 2013.

The Kaplan Prize is supported and administered by Eventide Theatre Company in Dennis, MA.

About the Play…

A charming young con man wanders into Starkweather -- a prairie town in the very center of both North America and nowhere.  He meets his match when he breaks into the home of a woman “of mature years” with god on her side.

Hellion Jim Dalglish

This is a play that has particular meaning for me. It’s been kicking around in my head and on the page for more than 20 years. The play is set in North Dakota - not far from where I grew up. Aspects of it go to my very soul. You can take the boy out of North Dakota, but can you take North Dakota out of the boy? I guess we shall see.” - Jim Dalglish, Playwright/Helltown Players Trustee

The Cast…

The cast includes actors from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, as well as New York.

• Linda Monchik will be performing the role of Mrs. Cook - a gas station proprietress of “mature years.”

• Marco Bradshaw will be performing the role of J. - a Mexican migrant worker in his mid 20s.

• Brian Sheppard takes on the role of Tom - a charismatic young con man who knows an easy mark when he sees one.