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.
-30-
Attached picture:
Laura Poe, left. Jensie Britt,
right.
No comments:
Post a Comment