By Brian Friel
Directed by Michael Helms
November 14, 15, 16, 17
8:00 pm Curtain
Crane Theatre
Adults: $6.00
Seniors/High School & Younger: $5.50
Snow College Students: Free w/Activity Card
Season Ticket
Adults: $20.50
Seniors/High School & Younger: $19.00
"This is no way a play to be missed--simply a wondrous experience. Experience it."-New
York Post
The Story:
The action of the play is told through the memory of the illegitimate son as he remembers
the five women who raised him, his mother and four maidenaunts. He is only seven in
1936, the year his elderly uncle, a priest, returns after serving for 25 years as
a missionary in a Ugandan leper colony. For the young boy, two other disturbances
occur that summer. The sisters acquire their first radio whose music transforms them
from correct Catholic women to shrieking, stomping banshees in their own kitchen.
And he meets his father for the first time, a charming Welsh drifter who strolls up
the lane and sweeps his mother away in an elegant dance across the fields. This haunting
play is a tribute to the spirit and valor of the past and its people.