Department of Fine Arts
The
University Theatre Presents:
Book of Days
by Lanford Wilson
February
19-22, 2003 Fine Arts Theatre
Hyman Fine Arts Center
Francis Marion University
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Department of Fine Arts The
University Theatre Presents:
February
19-22, 2003 |
| The Francis Marion University Theatre's second mainstage production of the 2002-2003 season, to run February 19-22, will be Lanford Wilson's Book of Days, which won the Best Play Award from the American Theater Critics Association. Book of Days is set in a small town dominated by a cheese plant, a fundamentalist church, and a community theater. When the owner of the cheese plant dies mysteriously in a hunting accident, Ruth, his bookkeeper, suspects murder. Cast as Joan of Arc in a local production of George Bernard Shaw's St. Joan, Ruth takes on the attributes of her fictional character and launches into a one-woman campaign to see justice done. | 
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Lanford Wilson uses
note-perfect language to
create characters who are remarkable both for their comic turns and for
their
enormous depth. "Mr. Wilson's cosmic consciousness, intense
moral concern,
sense of human redemption and romantic effusion have climbed to a new
peak."
-- Alvin Klein New York Times RUTH HOCH........................Rachel Harrison LEN HOCH............................Vince Triana BOYD MIDDLETON.......................Glen Dawson GINGER REED.....................Sarah Thorowgood MARTHA HOCH.......................Carol Graziani WALT BATES...........................Brad Sponic SHARON BATES.....................Gretchen Freund JAMES BATES........................David Sistare LOUANN BATES......................Tiffany Sarvis EARL HILL........................Andrew Cogswell REVEREND BOBBY GROVES..............Nick Sharrett SHERIFF CONROY ATKINS......Christopher Blackwell DIRECTOR.......Associate Professor D. Keith Best |
The
Francis Marion University Theatre began the season with Richard
Brinsley Sheridan's The
School for Scandal and continued the season with the
Experimental Theatre's series of Student Directed One-Act Plays. The season will close with Beth
Henley's Crimes of the Heart to
run April 16-19.
Reservations for Book of Days may be made beginning February 10 by calling the box office at 661-1365. The box office will be open to reserve seats Monday through Friday from 1 pm to 5 pm. All tickets are free to the public. Curtain is at 8:00.
For additional information contact Mr. Gourley in FAC 222, 661-1536, agourley@fmarion.edu.
Interested in working
"behind the scenes"? Contact Mr.
Granath in FAC 222, 661-1536,
dgranath@fmarion.edu.