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South Street Players Presents "Picnic" By William Inge

originally published: 04/19/2015

South Street Players Presents "Picnic" By William Inge(SPRING LAKE, NJ) -- The South Street Players presents "Picnic" by William Inge in Wesley Hall at St. Andrews Methodist Church (4th & Mercer Avenues) in Spring Lake, NJ.  Performances are Fridays (May 1,8) at 8pm; Saturdays (May 2,9) at 8pm; and Sundays (May 3, 10) at 2pm. The Pulitzer prize winning play is set in 1953 and focuses on the dramatic events that take place amidst the preparation for a Labor Day picnic in a small rural Kansas town in the joint backyards of two middle-aged widows.  The production is directed by Bill King.

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

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Helen Potts - Maggie Rogers

Hal Carter - Matthew Giove

Millie Owens - Lindsay Cherin

Madge Owens - Jennifer Townsend

Flo Owens - Siobhan Krier

Rosemary Butler - Mary Sullivan

Alan Seymour - Eric Pertgen

Irma Kronkite - Jeri Georger

Howard Bevans - Todd Magnusson

Bomber - Brendan Gillespie

Christine Schoenwalder - Gail Sheehan

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