EAST MADISON -- Anna Freeman, well-known, playwright, director and actress from Athens, has written two plays that will be performed this weekend, Sept. 4, 5, and 6 beginning at 7:30 p.m. each evening at the East Madison Square Garden community center.

"Nobody 's Fault" demonstrates the poignant, yet often comic, perspectives of a younger and an older women, play by Sarah Bussell MacMichael and Valerie Huebner, who are both infatuated with the same young man.

The two women act out their conflicting sides of events that took place during a week in Hawaii.

"I try to show that love can flare up at any time in life and that ageism can be cruel and goes both ways," Freeman said. 

In "Pretending," veteran actor, Cheryl Seamans deals with the issue of decreased potency and desire, as men and women age and libidos decline.

She retells a conversation she had the night before with her husband. It's obvious that they love each other, but she thinks that maybe it's time to give it a rest. Whether her husband can or not is another thing.

"I don't think it's a secret, but men and women alike find aging difficult in one way or another," said Freeman, writer and director of the two, short plays, which she said are sensitive to issues having to do with ageism.

"I 'm thrilled to have so many actors in the cast with whom I'm so well acquainted," said Freeman.

Both Huebner and Seamans performed in Freeman 's play "Generic Women, " that was performed on the Waterville stage several years ago.

Bussell took stage directions from Freeman when she was in the 7th grade at Athens Elementary School and Freeman acted with her assistant director, Vaughn LeBlanc, with the Cornville Players in the early 1970s.

The two plays will be performed as a benefit for the non-profit East Madison Square Garden that has been home to events for 15 years, including plays and concerts, video and movie viewings, yoga and life drawing classes, birthday parties, wedding receptions and wakes as well as serving as a summer workshop/studio for The In Spite of Life theater group.