Eureka College Theatre to perform “The Dining Room”

The Eureka College Theatre group is back with their fall play, directed by college theatre alumnus, Joel Shoemaker.  

 

Location:       

Pritchard Hall, Eureka College

300 East College Avenue, Eureka, IL 61530

 

Cast:                 

Sofie Bressner

Baylor Cluver
Trevor Dare
Jaden Randall
Sean Sandrock
Mackenzie Thompson 

 

Crew:                   

Director – Joel Shoemaker

Assistant Director – Kylei Anderson
Stage Crew – Madeline Petty

 

Tickets:             

FREE, open to the public

Reservations strongly recommended.

                                               

“The play is set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household, the place where the family assembled daily for breakfast and dinner and for any and all special occasions. The action is comprised of a mosaic of interrelated scenes—some funny, some touching, some rueful—which, taken together, create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class WASP.

 

The actors change roles, personalities and ages with virtuoso skill as they portray a wide variety of characters, from little boys to stern grandfathers, and from giggling teenage girls to Irish housemaids. Each vignette introduces a new set of people and events; a father lectures his son on grammar and politics; a boy returns from boarding school to discover his mother’s infidelity; a senile grandmother doesn’t recognize her own sons at Christmas dinner; a daughter, her marriage a shambles, pleads futilely to return home, etc. Dovetailing swiftly and smoothly, the varied scenes coalesce, ultimately, into a theatrical experience of exceptional range, compassionate humor and abundant humanity.”

 

“A brilliantly conceived and richly humorous theatrical tour de force (and Off-Broadway success) in which six (or more) performers portray a wide array of diverse characters as they delineate the dying lifestyle of wealthy WASPdom, and the now neglected room which was once a vital center of family life.”