 Plot description:
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"This is the story of Gene, a widower, with an elderly mother whom
he loves and an eighty-year-old father, whom he has never loved,
hard as he tried. The father has been the mayor of a small town in
Westchester County, self-made and highly respected. Beneath these,
trappings, however, he is a mean, unloving, ungenerous man, who has
driven his daughter away because of her marriage to a Jew and has
alienated his son through his possessiveness, his selfishness and
his endless reminiscences. Suddenly the mother dies and Gene is
faced with the responsibility of having the father on his hands just
as the time when he wants to remarry and move to California. There
are a series of dramatic confusion when Alice, the sister, who has
defied her father, pleads with Gene not to take on the burden of the
old man and ruin his life; when the penurious father and son have to
pick out a coffin for the mother, the final episode in which Gene
tries once again to rouse in himself affection for his father and
succeeds, but only for the moment. For it is still not possible for
him to "sing" for his father - to understand and be understood, to
give the love he so wants to give, and to feel it all will be
accepted, and appreciated, by his father, who he cannot love."
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Cast members in leading roles are Ryder Mills as Gene, Josh
Meador as Tom, Tegan Follis as Margaret and Jacqueline Keysear as
Alice. Additional cast members are Justin Broom, Elijah Chapman,
Alyssa Harpin, Rebekah Harpin, Cassy Harpin, Logan Keysear, Ryan
Crawley, Kendall Katz, Olivia Graue, Alissa Harvey and Joella
Vermeire.
The play is being directed by Laura Schonauer and Samantha Prack.
Assistant directors are Kendall Katz, a senior, and Haley Welch, a
junior.
Set construction was designed and completed by Brock Bleess and
Bradley Miller.
Crew members are Lia Shurtz, Devin Biggs, Alyssa Harpin, Rebekah
Harpin, Cassy Harpin, Jade Dean, Madison Bishop, Livvie Muck, Brock
Bleess, Bradley Miller, Ryan Crowley, Shelby Harrison, Logan Keysear
and Colton Clark.
[Text from file received from
Devin Biggs,
Lincoln Community
High School] |
