Give My Regards to Berwick
The Hackmatack Playhouse, Maine's most organic summer theater, specializes in homegrown talent.
By Rob Sneddon, Photography by Amazeen
Claire Junkins enjoys a good musical. "I've seen this probably eight times," Junkins says before a matinee performance of Cabaret at the Hackmatack Playhouse in Berwick. At seventy-eight, Junkins knows what she wants -- and what she doesn't. "I don't like mysteries," she says firmly. "And I tell Mr. Guptill that."Mr. Guptill -- Hackmatack Playhouse executive producer Michael Guptill -- aims to please, in big ways and small. Big: by staging at least one classic musical every season. Small: by making sure that Junkins, a longtime Hackmatack patron, stays comfortable in his un-air-conditioned barn on a summer afternoon.
