Performances April 4, 5, 11, 12 @ 7:30 PM and April 6, 13 @ 2 PM
Discovery Elementary School Stage 214 1st Ave NE, Buffalo MN 55313
The play is set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household, the place where the family assembled daily for breakfast and dinner and for any and all special occasions. The action is a mosaic of interrelated scenes—some funny, some touching, some rueful—which, taken together, create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class. The actors change roles, personalities and ages with virtuoso skill as they portray a wide variety of characters, from little boys to stern grandfathers, and from giggling teenage girls to Irish housemaids. Each vignette introduces a new set of people and events; a father lectures his son on grammar and politics; a boy returns from boarding school to discover his mother’s infidelity; a senile grandmother doesn’t recognize her own sons at Thanksgiving dinner; a daughter, her marriage a shambles, pleads futilely to return home, etc. Dovetailing swiftly and smoothly, the varied scenes coalesce, ultimately, into a theatrical experience of exceptional range, compassionate humor and abundant humanity.
Cast List:
| Actors |
| Joe Happe |
| Tim Lahti |
| Gannon Miller |
| Mary Markve-Patch |
| Dani Pazurek |
| Emily Kovach |
Director – Mary Cutler