Pierre Players Presents:
Crimes of the Heart
April 25, 26, 27*, 2014 (Fri, Sat, Sun*)
May 1, 2, 3, 2014 (Thu, Fri, Sat)
Grand Opera House, Pierre, SD
Preview Performance: April 23, 2014, 7:30 p.m. Preview tickets are $5 at the door.
Doors Open at 7:00 p.m., Performance at 7:30 p.m.
*Sunday Matinee Doors Open at 1:30 p.m., Performance at 2:00 p.m.
Comedy/Drama by Beth Henley
Director Michael Pangburn
Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.
The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at 30 and facing diminishing marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who quickly outgrew Hazlehurst, is back after a failed singing career on the West Coast; while Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach.
Their troubles, grave and yet, somehow, hilarious, are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by the awkward young lawyer who tries to keep Babe out of jail while helpless not to fall in love with her. In the end the play is the story of how its young characters escape the past to seize the future—but the telling is so true and touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger in the mind long after the curtain has descended.
"It has heart, wit and a surprisingly zany passion that must carry all before it…it would certainly be a crime for anyone interested in the theatre not to see this play." -- NY Post
"Crimes of the Heart" is presented by special arrangement with DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE, INC.
CAST:
Lenny: Molly Valentine
Meg: Amanda Schmitgen
Babe: Kristin Kellar
Chick: Alisa DeMers
Barnette: Alan Haarstad
Doc: Sam Smith
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