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2008 Shows
The Romantic Age
By: A. A. Milne
Director: Rob Grumich
Show Times: June 12-15, 28, 29
The author of Winnie the Pooh was also a wonderful
and prolific writer of plays for adults.
Here we meet young
Melisande Knowle—beautiful and marriageable, but awash in romantic
notions; she’ll have no man who
won’t embody her dream of Prince Charming.
Her mother, though, is determined to find her a “solid” husband. Bobby is a persistant suitor, but he’s
just too “everyday”. One magic night
a stranger, Gervase, comes to the door—he’s run out of gas. But he was driving to a costume ball and
he’s dressed as—you guessed it—Prince Charming.
There are many
complications and it takes an encounter in a glade with a magical peddler
to convince Gervase of the blessings of matrimony.
This is a beautifully,
happily, drippingly romantic comedy.
 Cast:
Melisande . . . . . . . . . . Amanda Williford
Jane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amy Schwarz
Mr. Knowles . . . . . . . . Mark Abels
Mrs. Knowles . . . . . . . Teresa Doggett
Gervase . . . . . . . . . . . . Charlie Barron
Bobby . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kris
Ramsey
Gentleman Susan . . . George Wiseheart
Maid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dorothy Farmer Davis
Ern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dillon Sansone
Ladyhouse Blues
By:
Kevin O’Morrison
Director: Steve Callahan
Show Times: June 19-22, 26, 27
St. Louis, 1919: Liz
Madden, a widow with four daughters, tries to hold her family together in a
world she never made, while waiting for her only son to return from France.
Liz is the indomitable
mother of this working-class Irish family.
Daughter Helen is dying of consumption; Dot, once a model, is insecure in her
marriage to a New York socialite; Terry is a waitress and fiery union
activist; Eylie, the youngest,
observes it all—and wants to marry “that Greek boy” and move with him to California.
The play is rich in
period and local detail. Liz faces
forces of life and death that threaten to tear her family apart. At the end, with the strength of Ma Joad,
she addresses God: "Lord, if
you was a woman, you'd a-done it differnt."
Cast:
Liz . . . . . .
Kim Furlow
Helen . . . Allison Hoppe
Dot . . . . . . Valerie Jean Waters
Terry . . . . Emily Strembicki
Eylie . . . . Carli Miller
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