YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU  

A Comedy by Moss Hart and George S Kaufman

Directed by Theodore Kachel

April 22-25, 2010  Curtain 8pm, Sunday matinee 2pm

 

The Page Players will be closing our season ticket with the family classic, You Can’t Take It With You.  At first the Sycamores seem mad, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is madder. In contrast to these delightful people are the unhappy Kirbys. The plot shows how Tony, attractive young son of the Kirbys, falls in love with Alice Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore home on the wrong evening. The shock sustained by the Kirbys, who are invited to eat cheap food, shows Alice that marriage with Tony is out of the question. The Sycamores, however, though sympathetic to Alice, find it hard to realize her point of view. Meantime, Tony, who knows the Sycamores are right and his own people wrong, will not give her up, and in the end Mr. Kirby is converted to the happy madness of the Sycamores, particularly since he happens in during a visit by an ex-Grand Duchess, earning her living as a waitress. No mention has as yet been made of the strange activities of certain members of the household engaged in the manufacture of fireworks; nor of the printing press set up in the parlor; nor of Rheba the maid and her friend Donald; nor of Grandpa's interview with the tax collector when he tells him he doesn't believe in the income tax.

 

AND! For the first time, SSCT is proud to present…

OUT OF THE BOX THEATER

 

OUT OF THE BOX PRODUCTIONS is our concept of “fringe” theatre.  It allows us to broaden our audience as we keep our season ticket family and student friendly.  However, as a Season Pass Bonus, our regular season ticket holders are invited to attend one of our Out of the Box productions free of charge.  Just present your ticket to be punched at the production of your choice.  Our two offerings for spring of 2010 will be:

 

PROOF 

By David Auburn

Directed by Jennifer Burke

Dates and times TBA

On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's madness—or genius—will she inherit?

 

THE LADY OF LARKSPUR LOTION  

a short play and tribute to Tennesee Williams

Directed by Andrea McFarland Campfield

Dates and Times TBA