The Playhouse will perform The Drawer Boy, by Michael Healey, Thursday, November 4 through Sunday, November 14, at Court Square Theater. Show times are Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 P.M.; Sundays at 3 P.M. Tickets are available now at www.courtsquaretheater.com/ or by phone at (540) 433-9189.
The premiere on November 3, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. will be a special performance as part of the Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance event, "Temptations at the Theater." For tickets to this performance, please visit www.downtownharrisonburg.org for more information.
The Drawer Boy is a humorous drama focusing on life on a Canadian farm. The script is based on an early 1970s alternative theater project in which actors moved to rural communities to find dramatic material for future productions. In the play, a young Toronto actor, Miles, arrives on a farm to observe how two brothers, mentally-challenged Angus and his long-time caregiver/brother, Morgan, live and work. Morgan is not thrilled with the arrangement, and Angus, because of a World War II head injury, can't remember from moment-to-moment why the young actor is present.
Horrified to learn first-hand that the farming activities Miles admires such as "planting, nurturing and nourishing" go hand in hand with others he abhors such as "harvesting, reaping, destroying" and "eviscerating," he discovers surprising truths about the brothers' pasts.
The play has won numerous awards and in recent years has been one of the most widely produced shows in Canada and the United States. Healey's amusing, unadorned dialogue, is especially affecting because it refuses to squeeze excessive sentiment from the story. As one critic said, "Think farm life is boring? Think again! Think plays about farm life are boring? You be the judge."
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