Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009Time: 8 PM (No latecomers)
Location: California State University Fresno
Dennis & Cheryl Woods Theater
5201 N Maple Ave (inside Speech Arts Building)
The Thursday, October 29, 2009 is open to veterans and one guest ONLY. Maximum theater capacity is 75 people.
RSVP is REQUIRED. Please RSVP by no later than Tuesday, October 27, 2009. You may RSVP by email me at tcrabb@csufresno.edu. For ticket receipt purposes. Please include name of Veteran when you RSVP.
Additional performance dates are open to the general public. Please go to the end of the email for additional performance dates, time and prices.
"Welcome Home Jenny Sutter"
LOOKING INSIDE WAR’S SILENCES
Jenny Sutter (Kelsey Oliver) is home from Iraq. She's a 30-year-old Marine, minus her lower right leg. With a mind filled with horrific memories. Those memories were bad enough while she was overseas. They are unbearable now that she's back in Southern California.
Jenny is struggling to return to civilian life — from the mundane struggle of putting on a pair of pants to the deeper struggle of finding meaning to her life. Jenny is in no shape to return to Oceanside, where her mother is taking care of her two kids.
How the kindness of strangers and Jenny's own inner strength allow her to finally make an attempt to return to the reality of civilian life is the ambitious subject of "Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter," by Julie Marie Myatt, that made its world premiere at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
On a whim, Jenny decides to accompany the ditsy stranger she meets in the smelly waiting room of a Los Angeles bus station to Slab City. Once there, Jenny finds that Slab City, a ragtag camp ground in the California desert, is chock-a-block full of souls just as lost as she is, each trying to run from their own unpleasant reality.
There is Lou (Kelsey Deroian), who never stops talking. Lou is addicted to absolutely everything and frantically trying to quit them all. But she is generous and empathetic and Jenny hooks up with her if only to find a temporary place to alight.
There is Buddy (Matthew McGee), physically twisted from the abuse he suffered as a child but spiritually straight and gentle. Buddy is the self-appointed preacher to the community, giving a message of love and hope to his unlikely congregation.
There is Donald (Bryce Earp), trying desperately to appear indifferent because he cannot bear to care so much.
And Cheryl (Kelly Derry), Lou's "therapist," who got her "training" from her experience as a hairdresser in the miniscule desert town of Hemet.
All of these misfits reach out to Jenny in one way or another. And gradually — against her instincts — Jenny allows them to get through.
Kathleen McKinley directs. Gwenna Merriman has designed the set, lit by Izzy Eisnidler and Stephanie Bradshaw designed the costumes.
Playwright Julie Marie Myatt grew up in a military family. She has said that she wanted to explore the experiences of the first generation women who have served in combat positions and who can't simply seamlessly reintegrate into civilian life.
Dennis & Cheryl Woods Theater
October 30-November 7, 2009
All Performances begin at 8:00 p.m. except on Sunday when it begins at 2:00 p.m. Closed on Monday
Ticket Prices:
General Admission: $17
Fresno State Faculty/Staff, Alumni Association Members*, Seniors (60 +) & Non - Fresno State Students (Under 5 not admitted) and Military: $15
Fresno State Students*: $10
*ID Required
Box Office Hours
Monday – Friday - Noon to 4 p.m.
North Entrance Speech Arts Building
Phone - 278-2216
Web Site - http://www.csufresno.edu/theatrearts
E-mail - pamd@csufresno.edu
1 comment:
Can you include a map, it was really hard to find where the Woods Theatre is located? That would be most helpful. Thanks.
Army vet Angelica
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