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Delta
Center Stage presented an edited version of this award-winning play The history of a family dissolves into the shadows below their mother's boat-house when three sisters attempt to reconnect their lives out of a troubled past and struggle to find meaning in their mother's recent death. A touching, uncompromising look at family secrets and the monsters we all try to hide.
Penny Byler (Essie), Sonya Bixler (Fran), and Deanna Harper (Chrissie) Take a break from their struggles for a few moments to resurrect old family memories on the evening of their mother's funeral. "Once in a while a play is written with such clarity and performed with such transparency, it's possible to forget you're in a theater and feel you're evesdropping on a real moment in someone's life...The Glider has achieved this impressive combination of unaffected naturalism within the hightened reality of the stage. The action takes place in the boathouse of the family home...on a lakeside in Michigan. Almost immediately, [playwright Katherine] Snodgrass creates a tension between the lake's gentle beauty and its dangerous, mysterious depths. That same tension, between the surface appearances and the complicated emotions hidden underneath, drives this taut and tender drama. Snodgrass skillfully disarms the audience and defies expectations...[she]doesn't resolve all the power plays or the emotional ripples she creates, Instead, her characters cling to us long after the play ends, and their struggles continue to resonate with the insistent swinging of the Glider." Terry Byrne, "Delta Center Stage has long set the standard
for artistic merit among Mississippi community theatres. This production
was stunning in performance, design and direction, and we could
ask for no finer representative ..." Denise
Halbach, Chairman More information and background
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