A Tuna Christmas
By Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard
Featuring the talents of Scott Gottliebson and Rick
Holt
Friday November 22 and Saturday November 23 at
7:00 p.m.
Sunday November 24 at 2:00 p.m.
Proceeds go to the Lutheran Social Services
Fairfield County Food Pantry
2045 East Main Street, Lancaster, Ohio
In this hilarious sequel to Greater Tuna, it's
Christmas in the third smallest town in Texas. Radio
station OKKK news personalities Thurston Wheelis
and Arles Struvie report on various Yuletide
activities, including hot competition in the annual
lawn display contest. In other news, voracious Joe
Bob Lipsey's production of A Christmas Carol is
jeopardized by unpaid electric bills. Audiences who
have and who have not seen Greater Tuna will enjoy
this laugh filled evening.
Suitable for Ages 13 and Up.
Crimes of the Heart
By Beth Henley
Directed by Misty Hoover Connor
Friday March 21 and Saturday March 22 at 7:00 p.m.
Sunday March 23 at 2:00 p.m.
The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three
Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the
family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out
his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest
sister, is unmarried at thirty and facing diminishing
marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who
quickly outgrew Hazlehurst, is back after a failed
singing career on the West Coast; while Babe, the
youngest, is out on bail after having shot her
husband in the stomach. Their troubles, grave and
yet, somehow, hilarious, are highlighted by their
priggish cousin, Chick, and by the awkward young
lawyer who tries to keep Babe out of jail while
helpless not to fall in love with her. In the end the
play is the story of how its characters escape the
past to seize the future - but the telling is so true and
touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger
in the mind long after the curtain has descended.
Suitable for Ages 13 and Up.
The O
Odd Couple
By Neil Simon
Directed by Thom Ogilvie
Friday May 16 and Saturday May 17 at 7:00 p.m.
Sunday May 18 at 2:00 p.m.
This classic comedy opens as a group of the guys
assembled for cards in the apartment of divorced
Oscar Madison. And if the mess is any indication, it's
no wonder that his wife left him. Late to arrive is
Felix Unger who has just been separated from his
wife. Fastidious, depressed and a little too tense,
Felix seems suicidal, but as the action unfolds Oscar
becomes the one with murder on his mind when the
clean
clean-freak
and the slob ultimately decide to room
together with hilarious results as The Odd Couple is
born
born.
Suitable for Ages 13 and Up.
August 22, 2013
2013-2014
2014 Season
Driving Miss Daisy
September 20 and 21 at 7:00 p.m. and
September 22 at 2:00 p.m.
Over the River and Through the
Woods
xcerpt presented for the Friends of the
Excerpt
Library Annual Dinner Meeting
October 24 at the First Presbyterian
Church, 222 North Broad Street,
Lancaster.
A Tuna Christmas
November 22 and 23
2 at 7:00 p.m. and
November 24 at 2:00 p.m.
Proceeds go to the LSS Food Pantry.
Crimes of the Heart
March 21 and 22 at 7:00 p.m. and March
23 at 2:00 p.m.
The Odd Couple
May 16 and 17 at 7:00 p.m. and May 18
at 2:00 p.m.
garretplayers.org
Our web site is by The Web Chick – webchick.com –
of Lancaster, Ohio.
Ohio
AT THE GARRET
Driving Miss Daisy
Most performances are on the 3rd floor of
the Fairfield County District Library, 219
North Broad Street, Lancaster, Ohio.
By Alfred Uhry
Directed by Sandy Maholm
Featuring the talents of Bill Henry, Debra Smith, and
Dan Steele
TICKETS
Friday September 20 and Saturday September
21 at 7:00 p.m.
Sunday September 22 at 2:00 p.m.
Garret Players does not charge for
admission to our performances or any
other activities. We are privileged to use
the facilities of the taxpayer-supported
Fairfield County District Library, so we
don’t think it’s proper to charge admission
for what the public is already paying for.
We do not have tickets or reserved
seating for our performances. The Garret
is available for seating 30 minutes before
curtain time and everyone is invited to
join us.
DONATIONS
Please consider making a donation to The
Friends of the Fairfield County District
Library – a 501(c)(3) organization.
Proceeds benefit the Library and help
support productions by Garret Players.
The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just
prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently
demolished another car, Daisy Werthan, a rich,
sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, is
informed by her son, Boolie, that henceforth she
must rely on the services of a chauffeur. The person
he hires for the job is a thoughtful, unemployed
black man, Hoke, whom Miss Daisy immediately
regards with disdain and who, in turn, is not
impressed with his employer's patronizing tone and,
he believes, her latent prejudice. But, in a series of
absorbing scenes spanning twenty-five years, the
two, despite their mutual differences, grow ever
closer to, and more dependent on, each other, until,
eventually, they become almost a couple. Slowly and
steadily the dignified, good-natured Hoke breaks
down the stern defenses of the ornery old lady, as
she teaches him to read and write and, in a gesture
of good will and shared concern, invites him to join
her at a banquet in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
As the play ends Hoke has a final visit with Miss
Daisy, now ninety-seven and confined to a nursing
home, and while it is evident that a vestige of her
fierce independence and sense of position still
remain, it is also movingly clear that they have both
come to realize they have more in common than
they ever believed possible-and that times and
circumstances would ever allow them to publicly
admit.
Suitable for General Audiences.
Over the River and Through the Woods
By Joe DiPietro
Excerpt directed by Ron Keaton
Featuring the talents of Barb Callahan, Jackie
Howard, Mike Lieber, John Sweyer and Erin Woody
Thursday October 24 as an educational experience
for the Friends of the Library Annual Meeting. At the
First Presbyterian Church, Lancaster, Ohio
Nick is a single Italian-American guy from New
Jersey. His parents retired and moved to Florida, and
his sister moved to California. That doesn’t mean his
family isn’t still in Jersey. In fact, he comes out from
Manhattan to see both sets of his grandparents
every Sunday for dinner. This is routine until he has
to tell them that he’s been offered a dream job. The
job he’s been waiting for - marketing executive would take him away from his beloved, but annoying
- smothering? - grandparents. He tells them. The
news doesn’t sit so well. Thus begins a series of
schemes to keep Nick around. How could he betray
his family’s love to move to Seattle for a job, wonder
his grandparents? Well, Frank, Aida, Nunzio and
Emma do their level best, and that includes bringing
to dinner the lovely - and single - Caitlin O’Hare as
bait.
Suitable for General Audiences.