Photos: First look at Curtain Players' ELEEMOSYNARY
Eleemosynary will run from Oct 21 - Nov 6, 2022
In this dramatic work by Lee Blessing, three generations of highly intelligent and freethinking women attempt to reconcile years of family dysfunction. Dorothea was a repressed housewife and mother of three sons and a daughter, Artemis (Artie), whom she favored. She discovered that being an eccentric suited her perfectly and spent a lifetime thrusting her wild ideas and beliefs onto an unappreciative and doubting Artemis. Artemis ran away from Dorothea as soon as she could and kept on the move until she married and had a daughter of her own. She named her Barbara, but Dorothea renamed the child Echo and began to teach her everything from Ancient Greek to calculus. What Echo loves most is words and spelling. The title of the show comes from the winning word that Echo spelled correctly at the National Spelling Bee. The play jumps backward and forward in time. As one character relives a memory, the other two play themselves as they were during that time. In one memory, Echo portrays herself as a three-month-old. At the beginning of the play, Dorothea has suffered a stroke and is bedridden and catatonic for several scenes. Throughout the play, however, she takes part in her memories and then transitions back to the present, trapped in her minimally responsive body. The director and actors in Eleemosynary have the challenge of making these memory scenes feel authentic with smooth transitions and blocking.
Written by Lee Blessing. Directed by Aynn Titchenal, Stage Manager Kathy Hyland. the Cast includes: Sarah Bender (Echo), Mony Carpenter (Dorthea), & Shelly Riggs (Artie)
Performances run Oct 21 - Nov 6, 2022 at Curtain Players, 5691 Harlem Road, Galena, Ohio 43021. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit: http://curtainplayers.org
Check out the first look below!
Photo Credit: Jerri Shafer
|
The Jungle Book Kids Hilliard Civic and Cultural Arts Center (9/18-9/27) |
|
LIVE in Portsmouth, Ohio - America's Fleetwood Mac Experience Vern Riffe Center for the Arts (10/02-10/02) |
|
A Taste of Ireland - The Irish Music and Dance Sensation Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (10/17-10/17) |
|
LIVE in Tiffin, Ohio - America's Fleetwood Mac Experience The Ritz Theatre (8/08-8/08) |
|
To Die For Weathervane Playhouse (7/23-8/01) |
|
The Wizard of Oz Morrow Little Theatre (7/24-7/26) |
|
Caamp Value City Arena at The Schottenstein Center (8/29-8/29) |
|
The Music Man Weathervane Playhouse (7/09-7/18) |
|
Beetlejuice Ohio Theatre (4/16-4/18) |
|
Wicked Ohio Theatre (7/28-8/15) |