Get out your passport! The Midnight Players want to take you on a trip to London and the tropics. The fall production is The Admirable Crichton by J. M. Barrie of Peter Pan fame. Set in the late 1800’s, the story concerns Lord Loam, who believes that society should return to nature where everyone would be equal. To act on his beliefs, he forces his three daughters to serve tea to the servants once a month in the drawing room, a practice which provides the audience much merriment as all the participants try to interact socially. The entire household dreads the monthly teas, but Crichton, the epitome of the English butler, most of all.
Lord Loam gets the opportunity to try out his desire for equality in nature when he and his daughters, two friends, and a servant girl go on a voyage and are wrecked on a tropical island. As their time on the island drags on, Lord Loam’s views are sorely tested.
This play is reminiscent of the old television sit-com, Gillian’s Island, but with a British twist. With both humor and pathos, Barrie helps the audience consider what happens when the social norms are “shaken and stirred’.
The play will be presented on Thursday, November 19 at 7:00 p.m., Friday, November 20 at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, November 21 at 2:00 and 7:30 p. m. Tickets, which are $5 for students and $8 for adults, will be sold at the school box office beginning Thursday, November 12 from 11:00 – 11:30 a. m. and from 2:15 – 2:45 p. m. Tickets may be reserved online by contacting Mrs. Lisa Templeton at jlh.temp@verizon.net. There will be a $2 per ticket surcharge to exchange reserved tickets. Reserved tickets may be paid for and picked up at the Will Call table in the auditorium lobby at least 20 minutes prior to each performance.
Many of the roles in the play are double cast. One cast performs on Thursday and Saturday nights; the other on Friday night and Saturday matinee. The title role of Crichton is played by John Yendrey and Dylan Hodges. Nature lover, Lord Loam, is portrayed by Kevin Koeser and Dain Knudson. Lord Loam’s daughters are Lady Mary - Celeste Kelly and Serena Nguyen, Lady Catherine – Erin Auel and Amy Stamm, and Lady Agatha – Krystal Stevens and Kerry Reed. The Cockney maid, Tweeny, is played by Halie O’Farrell and Hillary Templeton, the epigram-spouting Lord Ernest Woolley by Anthony Franks and Garrett Taggart, and the good-hearted Rev. Trehern by Cameron Hixson and James Rogers. Lord Brocklehurst is played by Joe Denicola and Jeremy Hollis and his mother, the audacious Lady Brocklehurst, by Aimeé Prideaux and Bailey Kerr. The casts are rounded out by the following actors playing a variety of roles: Katrina Yaworski, Kaycee Norton, Claire Jones, Anna Mihm, Tedi Tomares, Yara Elbeshbeshi, Jena Stone, Ashley Barney, Diana Tappert, Alexandra Wiley, Cierra Speight, Bryn Whitney-Blum, Rebecca Morris, Laura Barnard, Hannah Gilles, Bridget Knudson, .Kimberly Lartz, Katie Kasunic, Madie Mettam, Cameron Rhode, Dylan Tomares, Nicholas Jesuitas, Christine Tseng, and Samantha Stanford.
Mr. Matt Johnson, Tech Director, and Danny Marshall, Student Tech Director, are working with an impressive tech crew to create an English drawing room and a Pacific island for the sets.
The Midnight Players invite everyone to see this entertaining and thought-provoking production. |
