If I Had My Way by Orlando playwright Joseph Reed Hayes is about life: laughter, tears, music, pride and fear; strong women and willful men; longing and unrequited desires; family and home; the past, the future and the magic of citrus blossoms.The play touches on the shared experiences of farm help, the children of enslavement (in its many forms) and people, often forced into warfare, who find themselves captured, put on ships and told to work during the day and live behind barbed wire at night. Florida, 1945. A young woman, Margaret Perry, educated in the North, reluctantly returns to her childhood home to care for her ailing mother. Finding herself in the same ranch kitchen where her mother and grandmother toiled all their lives, she resents every aspect of her situation, rejecting friendship and suitors, until her abrasive and bitter attitude is broken by a person she considered invisible: the Italian POW, Piero Alloca, brought to the ranch as replacement help.Digital Adventure Theater at Orlando Science Center,THURSDAY JUNE 16, PREVIEW PERFORMANCE $10, $20 FRONT ROW VIP (supersupporter)FRI-SUN JUNE 17-19 $20, $30 FRONT ROW VIP (supersupporter)MONDAY JUNE 20, INDUSTRY NIGHT for Restaurant and Theater folks ALL SEATS $15All performances, door 7pm, Show 7:30pm777 E Princeton St, Orlando, FL 32803TICKETS AT https://www.simpletix.com/e/if-i-had-my-way-the-hayes-project-tickets-75765
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