MAT to run 'Seven' Saturday

The second showing of "Seven" runs Saturday in Havre in a special two-show event put on by Montana Actors’ Theatre.

MAT premiered its dinner-theater production of “Seven” in the Grand Union Hotel in Fort Benton Sept. 26, and is running the show Saturday in the former U.S. post office and federal courthouse, The Havre Historic Post Office on the corner of 3rd Street and 3rd Avenue.

“The actors have done their research to be able to embody each of the characters and bring their story to life,” director Dana Pyette said about the production.

The play is a collaboration by seven award-winning female playwrights, who interviewed seven women in the Vital Voices Global Leadership Network. The women interviewed fought for changes, particularly in areas of women’s rights, in their home countries of Russia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Guatemala and Cambodia, and around the world.

The actors in the MAT production are Pam Veis, Pam Hillery, Andi Daniel, Rachel Dean, Kate Hagen, Angela Murri and Bethany Mason.

The play has been performed worldwide — including by well-known actors and political leaders around the world and, in one production, by seven NATO generals — and translated into 25 languages.

A Fair Trade silent auction will be held during the dinner, with people bidding on items bought from entities like Global Goods and Global Girlfriends that market products made by women and promote economic growth and women’s rights throughout the world. A portion of the proceeds of Saturday’s silent auction will go to women’s rights organizations, Pyette said.

The production is sponsored by Lorang Law Firm.

The doors of the production at the former post office open at 5:30 p.m. Saturday with dinner starting at 6 p.m. Tickets are $35 and are available online at http://www.mtactors.com or by calling 945-0272.