by Gabrielle Gervais
DERBY LINE — Ah, coincidences. Some feel serendipitous; others feel like a cruel joke from the universe. In Two Tents, Stanstead-based writer and director Ross Murray leans into the latter. At a campsite, aptly named Painted Scenery Campground, Mel (Sarah Hardin) and her husband, Jim (Mic Hallinan), just so happen to set up their tent next to her long-ago ex, Dale (Benj Tabah), and his much younger girlfriend, Nancy (Holly Lillis). As the weekend progresses, secrets are revealed, relationships tested, and lots of stress beers are consumed. But, in the end, the play offers an honest reminder that life has a funny way of working out, whether it’s planned or not.
In his director’s note, Mr. Murray says Two Tents is his third play to be performed at the Haskell Opera House. “My first two were built around local legends and explored ideas of what is true and what is imagined. Two Tents offers up a different kind of mythology — the truths (and lies) we tell ourselves when we look back on our past. It’s a more personal play, coming out of my reflections on a long-ago hurt. …
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