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Monday, April 1, 2013

Athens State’s Athenian Players present dinner and theater production of The Glass Menagerie



For Further Information
Guy McClure
256-233-8296





For immediate release
March 28, 2013



Athens State’s Athenian Players present dinner and theater production of The Glass Menagerie



ATHENS, Ala. – Athens State University’s Athenian Players will present a special dinner and theater performance of The Glass Menagerie on Saturday, April 27 at 7:00 p.m. The production will take place in the ballroom of the Sandridge Student Center on Athens State’s campus.  Dinner will be served by Picasso’s Grill with the cost being $30 per person.  

This production of Tennessee Williams’ acclaimed drama is the inaugural production for the Athenian Players.  This recently formed troupe was assembled by Athens State’s new Assistant Professor of Drama, Dr. Hugh Long.  Long will direct the production.  

“We are beginning a rebirth of Athens State University Drama with the great Southern Playwright, Tennessee Williams,” states Long, “and with the Athenian Players fostering a North Alabama theatre culture & community firmly grounded in our wonderful academic institutions of Athens State University and Calhoun Community College”

The cast consists of Laura Poe as the mother, Jensie Britt as her daughter, Colin Whitworth as her son, and Forrest Johnson as the gentleman caller. 

In addition to the dinner and theater showing, stage performances of the play will run the weekends of April 11 – 13, and April 19 – 20 at 7:30 p.m. at Calhoun Committee College’s Black Box Theater.  Matinee performances will be held on Sunday April 14 and Sunday April 21 at 2:00 p.m.  Admission to these theater productions be charged at the door and is $10.00 per person, $7.00 for students and seniors.

 For reservations to the dinner and theater performance, please call 256-233-8243.  More information can be found at www.athens.edu/athenianplayers.
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Attached picture:  Laura Poe, left.  Jensie Britt, right.


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