| On Golden Pond
by Ernest Thompson
directed by Terry Ware
January 29, 30, 31 February 1 and February 5, 6, 7, 8, 2009
This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced daughter and her fiancé, who go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind. The boy quickly becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness—and slang—in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.
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| Affections of May by Norm Foster directed by Lois Baker
March 12, 13, 14, 15 and March 19, 20, 21, 22 - 2009
A light hearted comedy concerning two very different men competing for the affections of May Henning, a spirited woman and former teacher. When May's husband decides to return to the city life--and another woman--she is left alone and broke. As May tries to hold off the advances of both suitors, she learns the difference between wants and needs. A charming comedy the ends with a dose of reality that will warm your heart!
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The Sting
by David Rogers directed by Sue Cousins Apr 30, May 1, 2, 3 and May 7, 8, 9, 10, 2009
This show takes place in Chicago many years ago in a world of small-time hustlers and their girls—their money nonexistent but their ingenuity abundant. Johnny Hooker joins a friend in a successful con of a "runner." Unfortunately for them, the runner works for rackets boss, Doyle Lonnegan, who kills Johnny's friend. Hoping to avenge this murder, Johnny enlists master con man Henry Gondorf. Together they decide to try the big con called "The Wire." The excitement becomes explosive and a final scene which will have you guessing and gasping as it builds to the final con movement, "The Sting!"
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| Run for Your Wife by Ray Cooney directed by Sarah FitzGerald June 11, 12, 13, 14 and June 18, 19, 20, 21, 2009
This superb example of the British farce had them rolling in the aisles in London and New York. John Smith is your ordinary London cab driver. He owns his own car, sets his own hours, is hard working, punctual and lives a very ordinary life...with the exception of his two wives, Mary and Barbara. Complication is piled upon complication as the cabby tries to keep his double life from exploding. Run for Your Wife is a fast paced, slapstick, laugh a minute romp that leaves you in stitches and begging for more.
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