About Us:

Brian C. Fahey and Michelle M. K. Hatfield founded Gurnet Theatre Project in Duxbury, MA, in the winter of 2005 with the intention of producing outdoor theatre in the summer to follow.

We chose the name Gurnet Theatre Project for our new theatre company. The Gurnet is a name unique to Duxbury, a landmass that protects our lovely bay.

The word "project" speaks of who we are – young, innovative theatre artists, and what we seek to produce – theatre that is inventive and bold. The circle of friends that we travel in is one filled with energized and creative artists – it seemed the natural progression that we should unite forces. In July 2005, we staged our inaugural production of Tony Kushner's adaptation of Pierre Corneille's The Illusion, at The Myles Standish Monument in Duxbury, MA.

The production was a huge success on all accounts. Hundreds of residents and tourists came to the monument each night to enjoy a mystical evening of outdoor summer theatre. Our second production, a workshop of Samuel Beckett's masterpiece Waiting For Godot, rehearsed in the fall of 2005. It is our hope to bring Waiting For Godot to audiences in a fully realized production in the future.

In spring 2006 we produced August Strindberg’s Miss Julie in an electrifying new version from acclaimed Irish author Frank McGuinness. Miss Julie premiered at the Boston Center for the Arts and was later brought to the Duxbury Performing Arts Center. GTP’s Miss Julie was nominated for a Gold Star Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Summer 2006 we returned to The Myles Standish Monument in Duxbury, MA for our second summer of outdoor theatre with a production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Much Ado was a tremendous success for GTP, bringing out record numbers for a joyous production that celebrated the anniversary of our inception.

Spring 2007 brings the Boston Premiere of Bert V. Royal’s hilarious dark comedy, Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead. This production will bring GTP back to the BCA for two weeks in May. In the summer of 2007 we will once again return to the Myles Standish State Monument Reservation with Shakespeare’s As You Like It.

Gurnet Theatre Project seeks to produce excellent theatre that is at once:

Educational and Entertaining,
Experimental and Accessible,
Principled and Provocative.

Gurnet Theatre Project strives to foster local talent, both new and seasoned, young and old. Gurnet Theatre Project aims to explode theatrical convention, while rediscovering classical ideas.

Gurnet Theatre Project exists to produce, both in workshop and in fully realized productions, original, modern and classical works.

THE PROJECT