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Constance Alexander's highly-praised Spoken Opera, "The Way
Home," will be staged here at the Liberty Free Theatre with performances
tentatively set for this spring.
According to playwright Alexander, "I wrote 'The Way Home'
to honor two women from western Kentucky who agreed to be interviewed for a
documentary radio series throughout the course of their treatment. One had no
health insurance, and the other was so inspired by her struggle she donated
$1,000 to launch a community fundraising effort to help. In the end, both women
were hospice patients." Alexander tells the story with grace, humor and compassion. She is Faculty Scholar at Murray State University's Teacher
Quality Institute, and has been named to her third term on the board of the
Kentucky Oral History Commission by Gov. Steve Beshear. An award-winning newspaper columnist, poet, and independent
producer, as well as playwright, she has conducted several oral history projects
documenting various aspects of western Kentucky history. Our production will features Dorothy Hartz, who has
acted with and served on the board
of Directors of the Muddy Water Players. Locally, she
has appeared in The Passion of Dracula and The
The
audience is invited to gather after the performance for food, drink, and music.
Call 845 292-3788 for reservations and additional information. Other upcoming productions...
Protest, by Vaclav Havel, will be part of an ongoing celebration of the life and work of the late playwright, essayist and President of the Czech Republic. The play, tinged with Havel's characteristic irony and humor, reveals the bumbling intellectual confusion created in good men under oppressive circumstances.
Charley is a farcical romp by the fantastical Polish playwright, Slawomir Mrozek, about a nearly-blind old man, armed with a rifle, who comes looking for an enemy named Charley. Is Charley real or imagined?
The season will also include our perennial mix of poetry, music and fiction and a return of last year's popular Rent Money Reading Series.
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