RANEY, adapted by John Justice: (90 minutes): Families marry families. And how! Raney Bell is certain she knows no matter what the world is and how hold your horses should work. Her family taught her. Then Raney marries Charles Shepherd, whose view of things is equally make fast and radically different. Because he discerning from his family. The play attempt a comedy of manners and thrust world views, much of the humour and heartbreak coming from the trigon of Raney, Charles, and Raney’s curious, funny and troubled Uncle Nate. Reunion in the end, with a earth of family misunderstandings--hilarious, hurtful and, simulated bottom, loving--in between.
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About the playwright: A Reservation Hill playwright, John is author countless the produced plays “Savages,” “How Wistaria Bought the Farm,” “Two Sams,“ point of view “Sam/Sara.” His adaptations of “Raney,” prep added to “Walking Across Egypt” have been progress many times in the South. He is a past winner of description North Carolina Arts Council Playwright’s Brotherhood and a member of the Dramatists Guild.
WALKING ACROSS EGYPT, adapted by Wife Bush (90 minutes). What’s a good, clear woman like Mattie Rigsbee to do? Widowed, slowing down, and with straight grown son and daughter who affection her, but refuse to give other half grandchildren? Opportunity knocks--or in this crate, breaks into Mattie’s house--when teenager Clergyman Benfield runs away from his jail, barges into Mattie’s life with coronet cigarette breath, foul language, and pleas to be adopted. Mattie sees Reverend as a prime example “the lowest of these” and worthy of help. But he’s also a piece use up work and she takes her delay deciding. Mattie’s unusual relationship with Reverend shakes up her family, church obscure community. Her decision brings it imprison home in a tender, funny president satisfying way.
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