2007 - 2008
Season
Messiah on the Fridgidaire
Written by: Greenville, SC native, John Culbertson
Directed by: Nikki Bramlett
The small town of Elroy, South Carolina is thrust into the
evangelical spotlight, when what seems to be the image of Jesus
appears on a refrigerator in a trailer park. The discovery by Lou
Ann Hightower, her husband Dwayne, and her best friend Betsy, sets
into motion a frenzy of conflict, communion and good old fashioned
commerce. When the National Investigator turns the appearance into
front page headlines, their trailer park becomes a mecca for miracle
seekers, soul searchers and disciples with a decidedly political
agenda. Through the ordeal, the three undergo an evolution in their
relationships with each other, and they are forced to come to grips
with their lowly status in the caste system of the rural south. In a
region where religion is as much a part of life as grits and cotton
fields, God surely moves in mysterious ways.
Show Times:
September 28,29, October 5, 6.
Tickets:
$8.00 for adults & $5.00 for students &
seniors.
Call:
803-377-1101
A Christmas Story
Christmas comedy. Adapted by Philip
Grecian. Based on the motion picture A Christmas Story
Directed by:
Humorist
Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in the midwest in the 1940s
follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red
Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case
before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself, at
Goldblatt's Department Store. The consistent response: "You'll shoot
your eye out." All the elements from the beloved motion picture are
here, including the family's temperamental exploding furnace; Scut
Farkas, the school bully; the boys' experiment with a wet tongue on
a cold lamppost; the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin; Ralphie's
father winning a lamp shaped like a woman's leg in a net stocking;
Ralphie's fantasy scenarios and more. A Christmas Story is
destined to become a theatrical holiday perennial.
Show Times:
November 9,10,15,16
Tickets:
$8.00 for adults & $5.00 for students & seniors.
Call: 803-377-1101
Smoke on the Mountain, Homecoming
Written by: Connie Ray, conceived by Alan Bailey
with musical Arrangements by Mike Craver
Directed by:
It's
October, 1945, and the gospel-singing Sanders Family is back
together again. The war is over and America's years of prosperity
are just beginning. But there's another kind of rite of passage at
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, where Reverent Mervin Oglethorpe is
giving his last service. He's been called to preach in Texas, and
he's already bought a ten-gallon hat and is preparing to ride into
the sunset with his wife June, who is eight months pregnant.
Tomorrow morning, young Dennis Sanders takes over as Mount
Pleasant's pastor. Join the Sanders Family as they send Mervin and
June off in style, with hilarious and touching stories and
twenty-five toe-tapping Bluegrass Gospel favorites.
Show Times:
February 8,9,15,16
Tickets:
$8.00 for adults & $5.00 for students & seniors.
Call: 803-377-1101
A Streetcar Named Desire
Written by: Tennesee Williams
Directed by:
The play reveals to the very depths the
character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined
by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject—so far as
possible—the realities of life with which she is faced and which she
consistently ignores. The pressure brought to bear upon her by her
sister, with whom she goes to live in New Orleans, intensified by
the earthy and extremely "normal" young husband of the latter, leads
to a revelation of her tragic self-delusion and, in the end, to
madness.
Show Times:
May 9,10,16,17
Tickets:
$8.00 for adults & $5.00 for students & seniors.
Call: 803-377-1101
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