Description

The play takes place on Labor day Weekend in the joint backyards of two middle-aged widows. The one house belongs to Flo Owens, who lives there with her two maturing daughters, Madge and Millie, and a boarder who is a spinster school teacher. The other house belongs to Helen Potts, who lives with her elderly and invalid mother. Into this female atmosphere comes a young man named Hal Carter, whose animal vitality seriously upsets the entire group. Hal is a most interesting character, a child of parents who ignored him, self-conscious of his failings and his position behind the eight ball. Flo is sensitively wary of temptations for her daughters. Madge, bored with being only a beauty, sacrifices her chances for a wealthy marriage for the excitement Hal promises. Her sister, Millie, finds her balance for the first time through the stranger's brief attention. And the spinster is stirred to make an issue out of the dangling courtship that has brightened her life in a dreary, minor way.

Cast & Crew

Time & Place

Company: Alliance Theatre Acting Program Summer Players

Venue: Alliance Theatre Black Box

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Biography

Jay Croft is pleased to be in his fifth production with the Alliance Theatre Acting Programhaving been seen in Dana Lynn Formby's The Small of Her Back and Josh Tobiessen's Spoon Lake Blues as well as The Royal Family and Once in a Lifetime. Some of his other roles in the Atlanta area include Juror #8 in The Royal Family and 12 Angry Jurors, Mitch in The Royal Family and A Street Car Named Desire and Frankie Salvucci in Breaking Legs for which the Metropolitan Atlanta Theater Awards nominated him Best Minor Supporting Actor in a Play. He would like to thank BJ Hughes for casting him in this great classic. He would especially like to thank his wife Tammy and their 7 kids (feline) for letting him pursue his love of acting.