Staged Readings
By Mahonri Stewart | 7.31.06
I wanted to give all you lovely “A Motley Vision” folks a heads up on staged readings that Utah Valley State College will be having of three of my plays at their Blackbox Theater. The tentative dates we have set right now are Aug. 24-26 (either that or 25-26 and 28). The three plays that will be read are very different from each other, and we don’t know which order they’ll be in, but here are descriptions of the plays:
UNEATEN CANTELOUPE: This is a farcical romp about two siblings who get stuck in a snowstorm in Wyoming, on the way home frome their father’s funeral. They find an unlikely five star hotel to lodge in, but discover that this “Miracle Hotel” is not what it seems. First of all, they can’t get out! They discover an array of crazy and colorful characters, who seem just as confused as they are. Together they attempt to get to the bottom of where exactly they are.
THE RELUCTANT CONVERT: Based on the early life of C.S. “Jack” Lewis, this play portrays the journey he made from staunch atheism to the faith that would make him one of the greatest defenders of Christianity in the twentieth century (and author of celebrated works like The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity and Till We Have Faces). With guides like “The Lord of the Rings” creator J.R.R. Tolkien, Jack undergoes a transformation that will rock the literary and religious world.
THE FADING FLOWER: Emma Smith, widow of the martyred Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, has raised her children to follow a very different path from where Joseph Smith’s successor Brigham Young has led the LDS faith. Trying to protect her children, she has distanced herself from the “Utah Mormons.” But when her son Joseph Smith III accepts the reigns a new “reorganized” sect of Mormonism, and her son David Hyrum Smith investigates his father’s past while serving missions in Utah, Emma and her children will have to face questions that she preferred to have left buried.
I hope some of you can come! I’ll give more details when they become available.
7.31.06 | 7:18 pm | comment permalink |
*Sigh*
It’s you theater people that sometime make me wish I lived along the Wasatch Front. Just about everything else in Mormon culture is available to me if I really want to seek it out.
Best of luck, Mahonri.
8.01.06 | 12:32 am | comment permalink |
Hey, William, if you’re interested, I could send you the scripts via e-mail. That’s not something I could offer everybody, but for you and the other contributers, I can see what I can do.