Reviewed by Tony Annicone

Welcome to the northern most part of New England where the show “Almost, Maine” by John Cariani is set in. The show premiered at the Portland Stage Company in Portland, Maine back in 2004 but is The Community Players third show of their 98th season. It is a series of nine vignettes exploring love as well as the joys and perils of romance. Cariani employs elements of magical realism as he explores the mysteries of the human heart. Almost, Maine is a town so far north that it’s almost in Canada and it almost doesn’t exist because its residents never got around to getting organized. So it is known as Almost. On a Friday night in the middle of winter, residents of a small, mythical town in northern Maine are falling in and out of love at an alarming rate. Director Valerie Remillard assembles 19 cast members to portray these roles to entertain the audience.

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