Directed by Tiffany Schweigert
June 10, 11 and June 17, 18 at 8 pm
Matinee June 19 at 2 pm
A charmingly nostalgic memory play, Proposals recalls the summer of 1953, and the last time the Hines family gathered at their retreat in the Poconos. It's a summer of romantic entanglements, which intertwine the nine characters' lives one idyllic afternoon. Clemma, the family's housekeeper (and the story's narrator), dreads a visit from the husband who deserted her years before. Burt Hines, a recovering workaholic convalescing from a second heart attack, looks forward to the arrival of the ex-wife he still loves. Burt's daughter Josie has just broken her engagement to Ken, an intense Harvard law student, and she yearns for his buddy Ray, an aspiring writer with whom she had a brief affair. Ray shows up with a striking but dimwitted model on his arm, and a young Miami gangster with a gift for malapropisms adds a note of hilarity to the gathering.
Harvey by Mary Chase
Directed by Darren Sextro
July 8, 9 and July 15, 16 at 8 pm
Matinee July 10 at 2 pm
(Please note, the Sunday matinee is the first weekend this play is performed)
When Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a six-and-a half-foot rabbit, to guests at a society party,his sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae,and their family from future embarrassment. Problems arise, however, when Veta herself is mistakenly assumed to be on the verge of lunacy when she explains to doctors that years of living with Elwood's hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also! The doctors commit Veta instead of Elwood,but when the truth comes out, the search is on for Elwood and his invisible companion. When he shows up at the sanitarium looking for his lost friend Harvey, it seems that the mild-mannered Elwood's delusion has had a strange influence on more than one of the doctors. Only at the end does Veta realize that maybe Harvey isn't so bad after all.
Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon
Directed by Matt Hentges
July 29, 30 and August 5, 6 at 8 pm
Matinee August 7 at 2 pm
Paul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds in every sense of the word. He's a straight as-an-arrow lawyer and she's a free spirit always looking for the latest kick. Their new apartment is her most recent find-too expensive with bad plumbing and in need of a paint job. After a six day honeymoon, they get a surprise visit from Corie's loopy mother and decide to play matchmaker during a dinner with their neighbor-in-the-attic Velasco, where everything that can go wrong, does. Paul just doesn't understand Corie, as she sees it. He's too staid, too boring and she just wants him to be a little more spontaneous, running "barefoot in the park" would be a start...
All performances are located in the David Theater, Park University 8700 NW River Park Dr., Parkville, MO 64152
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