ACT INC - Shows

by Noël Coward

June 19, 20, 21; July 3, 4, 5, 2009

In a retirement home full of old actresses the last thing to be buried may be the hatchet.

This was Coward's penultimate play and is like a Valentine's gift to the many aging theatrical grande dames who were among his dearest friends. The cast includes ten (Count them! TEN!) spirited, comic, cantankerous, loveable, and very theatrical ladies, from sixty-eight to eighty-five, as they fight to preserve "The Wings", their charity-funded home for retired actresses—and to resolve an ancient romantic rivalry.

Featuring Jane Abling, Dorothy Davis, Teresa Doggett, Cindy Duggan, Sally Eaton, Suzanne Greenwald, Tim Grumich, Charlie Huevelman, Liz Hopefl, Tamara Kenny, Jan Meyer, Eleanor Mullin, Diane Peterson, Lynn Rathbone, John Reidy, Marjorie Williamson and Susanna Wirthlin.

Phillipe, Gustave and Henri are very old, very bored, and just a little crazy.
Anything might happen.

This delicious, almost indescribable piece has hints of Waiting for Godot, a soupçon of The Sunshine Boys and just a whiff of Peter Pan's refusal to accept aging. Henri, Gustave and Philippe are lively old comrades from WWI in a French home for retired veterans. They plot their escape to Indochina! (Or at least to those poplar trees waving gently on the hill at the horizon.) Funny, whimsical, and filled with Stoppard's wit and scintillating dialogue, Heroes is a real gem.