The
Browning Version by
Terence Rattigan and Goodbye, Howard by Romulus Linney are scheduled for three matinee performances
by The Autumn Players of Asheville Community Theatre (ACT) Friday and Saturday,
August 28 and 29, in 35below at ACT and Sunday, August 30, in the Manheimer
Room at UNC Asheville's Reuter Center. Curtain is at 2:30 pm. Tickets are $6
cash at the door.
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| Jim Reid |
Directed
by Jim Reid and in partnership with Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC
Asheville, these two one-act plays comprise the last of five productions of the
2014-15 season of The Autumn Players' Readers Theatre Showcase.
The
Browning Version is
a searching, sensitive portrait of Andrew Crocker-Harris, a professor at an
English public school. Once a brilliant scholar, he now must face the fact that
his career, due to his rigid insistence on rules and regulations, has been a
failure. His realization leads to a farewell address before a school assembly
which is one his students will never forget.
Goodbye,
Howard is a delightful
comedy involving three rich and wacky Southern sisters who gather in a North
Carolina hospital to keep watch over their gravely ill brother. There they meet
a well-meaning youth from the backwoods who is every bit as wacky as they are.
When they mistakenly come to believe that their brother has died, pandemonium
breaks out.
Acting
has been No. 1 on Jim Reid's bucket list since 2004. Favorite roles include
Sidney Lipton in God's Favorite
and Robert in Proof. With The Autumn Players since 2010, he
appeared in Pygmalion and
The Little Foxes and directed Mary,
Mary, The Lion in Winter, and
Humble Boy.
The
Autumn Players is ACT's volunteer outreach group consisting of over 100
seasoned actors, directors, writers and educators dedicated to taking theatre
into the community. Since 1992 the company has provided entertainment,
enrichment, and instruction for thousands of students, seniors, and in-betweens
at venues within an hour or more from Asheville.
For
more information or for a full schedule of the Readers Theatre Showcase series,
please visit www.ashevilletheatre.org.
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