2006 Season

The Foreigner
Written by Larry Shue
 
Directed by Faye Harrington
 
 

The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by "Froggy" LeSeuer, a British demolition expert who occasionally runs training sessions at a nearby army base. This time "Froggy" has brought along a friend, a pathologically shy young man named Charlie who is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers. So "Froggy," before departing, tells all assembled that Charlie is from an exotic foreign country and speaks no English.

Once alone the fun really begins, as Charlie overhears more than he should—the evil plans of a sinister, two-faced minister and his redneck associate; the fact that the minister's pretty fiancée is pregnant; and many other damaging revelations made with the thought that Charlie doesn't understand a word being said. That he does fuels the nonstop hilarity of the play and sets up the wildly funny climax in which things go uproariously awry for the "bad guys," and the "good guys" emerge triumphant.

Performances
March 31 - April 9, 2006

Cast
Froggy LeSueur - John G. Kelly
Charlie Baker - Chris Erath
Betty Meeks - Tillie Sweet
David Lee - Patrick Mongeau
Catherine Simms - Jennifer Shea
Owen Musser - Jay Ball
Ellard Simms - Patrick Boyd

Dancing at Lughnasa
by Brian Friel
 
Directed by Rosann Santorelli
Produced by Sandy Clifford
 
This extraordinary play, widely regarded as Friel’s masterpiece, is the study of five unmarried sisters, named for Friel’s mother and sisters, (“those five brave, Glenties women”) who live in a modest cottage in Donegal. On the threshold of the autumn of 1936, the household revolves around the eight year old love-child, Michael, and the Mundy brother priest, Uncle Jack, recently returned from 25 years in a leper colony in Uganda. Ancient tribal customs and Christian beliefs clash as the autumnal fires celebrating the Harvest God, Lugh, bathe the high grass in golden light and distant music on the radio floats across the fields.

The sisters, with unfailing courage and sweet forgiveness dance in a wild, final celebration of their way of life before it changes forever.
 

Performances
September 29 - October 8, 2006

Cast
Kate Mundy - Julie Dapper
Maggie Mundy - Karen Dervin
Agnes Mundy - Donna Spurlock
Rose Mundy - Cherry Lynn Zinger
Christina Mundy - Gina Cuneo
Michael Mundy - Webb Tilney
Uncle Jack - Fred Marden
Gerry Evans - Patrick Boyd