Harbor Light Stage has found another unique setting for an equally unique play. The elegant ceremonial room of the Saint Aspinquid Masonic Lodge in York, Maine, will serve as the funeral home set of “Three Viewings,” which runs from Friday, Oct. 17, through Sunday, Nov. 2.

The show completes the first season of the Maine Stage series, which presents contemporary American scripts in distinctive settings throughout the Seacoast. Its spring launch turned a restored 19th century barn into the setting of “The Pavilion,” which sold out nine of its 11 performances.

“Three Viewings,” a three-in-one comedy about love and the afterlife by award-winning playwright and screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher, will feature Seacoast actress Kristan Raymond Robinson alongside Boston’s Mark Cohen and New York’s Norma Fire, under the direction of Harbor Light Stage’s founding artistic director Kent Stephens.

The monologues of “Three Viewings” are set in a Midwest funeral parlor. Emil, the funeral director, nurses an unspoken crush on a local real estate agent in the first act, “Tell-Tale.” In “The Thief of Tears,” Mac, an expert at robbing corpses, comes home to claim a long-denied inheritance by any means necessary. The widowed Virginia discovers that her late husband has left her in perilous debt and even greater jeopardy from an anonymous blackmailer in “Thirteen Things about Ed Carpolotti.”

Stephens described the Masonic Lodge as the perfect setting for the play, with all the sumptuousness of a nice funeral home. The black-and-white inlaid marble floor of the ceremonial room will serve as thrust staging. The surrounding antique benches, leather-bound and hand-carved of native oak, will provide seating for the audience of the first theater production ever held in this room.

“It was a theater, immediately,” Stephens said. All he needed to add were a couch and some flower arrangements.

The play comes from the writer of films such as “Stage Beauty,” “Casanova” and the forthcoming “The Duchess,” which will have its Seacoast premiere in October. Stephens has a history with the play, having developed it in workshops with the playwright and directed its world premiere. He described it as “funny, moving and very surprising.” He said, “It’s satisfying on all levels.”

Shows are on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 7:30 p.m., with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. The Saint Aspinquid Masonic Lodge is at 101 Long Sands Road in York, Maine. A special dinner-theater package with Anneke Jans restaurant in Kittery will be offered on Friday and Sunday nights.

An open “wake” with the cast, including a reception, will follow each performance. One audience may have the opportunity to meet the playwright, who is expected to attend the play on the evening of Sunday, Oct. 26.
For reservations, contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 207-439-5769, ext. 1. Tickets can also be purchased at the Bold Face Play Readings. The price is $25 to $30, and a student discount is available. For more information, visit www.harborlightstage.org.