Old Opera House Theatre
08-09-2006, 04:40 PM
The Old Opera House Theatre Company in historic Charles Town is proud to present:
<center>Picnic
A drama by William Inge</center>
Fridays & Saturdays Sept 8, 9, 15 & 16 at 8:00pm
Sunday matinees Sept. 10 & 17 at 2:30pm
William Inge once wrote, ?I've often wondered how people raised in our great cities ever develop any knowledge of humankind. People who grow up in small towns get to know each other so much more closely than they do in cities.? It is with this unique understanding of small town life that he wrote one of the most celebrated plays of the 1950s, Picnic. The play takes place on a hot Labor Day weekend in the back yards of two middle-aged widows. Flo Owens lives with her two maturing daughters and a boarder who is a spinster school teacher. This female dominated world becomes sexually charged and forever altered when a young drifter, with a past and a history of seduction, takes a room in exchange for doing odd jobs for their neighbor. Picnic, with its frank depiction of sexuality and subtle discarding of the notion that love conquers all, provides an evening of charged drama you won?t want to miss.
Picnic was a success with audiences when it opened on Broadway in February, 1953. It also earned significant praise from critics, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Outer Circle Award and the New York Drama Critics Award.
Few writers have captured women in their social environments as well as William Inge and it's in that respect that Picnic . . . retains its power ? Curtains Up
Director David Norman, who most recently directed Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? and The Miss Firecracker Contest at the Old Opera House, has assembled a dynamic cast for this play, including: Teri Campbell, Ashley Hall, Marc Hall, Alan Hupke, Shannon Juergensen, Amber Levow, Kenny Louden, Martha Louden, Heather Rager, Louise VanGilder-Martin and Will Emory.
Adult Tickets (Friday & Saturday) $15.00
Adult Tickets (Sunday matinees) $12.00
Students & Children (all performances) $7.00
<center>Picnic
A drama by William Inge</center>
Fridays & Saturdays Sept 8, 9, 15 & 16 at 8:00pm
Sunday matinees Sept. 10 & 17 at 2:30pm
William Inge once wrote, ?I've often wondered how people raised in our great cities ever develop any knowledge of humankind. People who grow up in small towns get to know each other so much more closely than they do in cities.? It is with this unique understanding of small town life that he wrote one of the most celebrated plays of the 1950s, Picnic. The play takes place on a hot Labor Day weekend in the back yards of two middle-aged widows. Flo Owens lives with her two maturing daughters and a boarder who is a spinster school teacher. This female dominated world becomes sexually charged and forever altered when a young drifter, with a past and a history of seduction, takes a room in exchange for doing odd jobs for their neighbor. Picnic, with its frank depiction of sexuality and subtle discarding of the notion that love conquers all, provides an evening of charged drama you won?t want to miss.
Picnic was a success with audiences when it opened on Broadway in February, 1953. It also earned significant praise from critics, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Outer Circle Award and the New York Drama Critics Award.
Few writers have captured women in their social environments as well as William Inge and it's in that respect that Picnic . . . retains its power ? Curtains Up
Director David Norman, who most recently directed Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? and The Miss Firecracker Contest at the Old Opera House, has assembled a dynamic cast for this play, including: Teri Campbell, Ashley Hall, Marc Hall, Alan Hupke, Shannon Juergensen, Amber Levow, Kenny Louden, Martha Louden, Heather Rager, Louise VanGilder-Martin and Will Emory.
Adult Tickets (Friday & Saturday) $15.00
Adult Tickets (Sunday matinees) $12.00
Students & Children (all performances) $7.00