South Street Players at Wesley Hall

Now in our 42nd year providing quality theater in Central Jersey!


1981 Pulitzer Prize Winning Play

CRIMES OF THE HEART


Written by Pulitzer Prize Winner - Beth Henley

Directed by Annette Curran


Produced by special arrangement with
Dramatists Play Service


The Characters:

Kim Mackanic - as Lenny Magrath
Rebecca Worthington - as Meg Magrath
Taylor Rose Frisco - as Babe Magrath
Hannah Drew - as Chick Boyle
Brendan Keffner - as Barnette Lloyd
David Telfeyan - as Doc Porter

The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at thirty and facing diminishing marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who quickly outgrew Hazlehurst, is back after a failed singing career on the West Coast; while Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach. Their troubles, grave and yet, somehow, hilarious, are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by the awkward young lawyer who tries to keep Babe out of jail while helpless not to fall in love with her. In the end the play is the story of how its young characters escape the past to seize the future ‐ but the telling is so true and touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger in the mind long after the curtain has descended.


Fridays:
   - Feb 14, 21 - 8pm


Saturdays:
   - Feb 15, 22 - 8pm


Sundays:
   - Feb 16, 23 - 2pm

$22 - adults
$20 - senior citizens and children under 12


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