| Event: 'Sandbox Players present The Dining Room' |  |
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Date: Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 7:15 pm
Duration: 2 Hours
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The Sandbox Players present
The Dining Room
April 8-18
April 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17 - 7:15pm
April 11 & 18 - 2:00pm
For tickets call 295-5828
Adults: $15
Students: $12 |
The play is set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household, the place where the family assembled daily for breakfast and dinner and for any and all special occasions. The action is a mosaic of interrelated scenes—some funny, some touching, some rueful—which, taken together, create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class WASP. The actors change roles, personalities and ages with virtuoso skill as they portray a wide variety of characters, from little boys to stern grandfathers, and from giggling teenage girls to Irish housemaids. Each vignette introduces a new set of people and events; a father lectures his son on grammar and politics; a boy returns from boarding school to discover his mother's infidelity; a senile grandmother doesn't recognize her own sons at Christmas dinner; a daughter, her marriage a shambles, pleads futilely to return home, etc. Dovetailing swiftly and smoothly, the varied scenes coalesce, ultimately, into a theatrical experience of exceptional range, compassionate humor and abundant humanity. |
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