NOV 20 & 21, 2008 @ 7pm
with a special 3 pm matinee NOV 19

(the Matinee is FREE for Senior Citizens)

Beth Henley's Pulitzer Prize-winning Play

Crimes of the Heart is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.  The scene is Hazelhurst, Mississippi, where the Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in a local hospital.  Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at thirty and facing diminishing marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who quickly outgrew Hazelhurst, 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, that are grave and yet, somehow, hilarious, are highlighted be 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.

The setting of the entire play is in the kitchen in the Magrath sister's house in Hazelhurst, Mississippi, a small southern town.  The time is during the autumn, five years after Hurricane Camille.  The show calls for four women and two men of the following types:

APRIL 16, 17 & 18, 2009 @ 7pm
with a special 4 pm matinee APRIL 15

(the Matinee is FREE for Senior Citizens)

The action of the play takes place in the living room of Ida's house and at the cemetery in Forest Hills, Queens during the autumn of 1987.  The show calls for four women and one man of the following types: