The Licklog Players are pleased to announce the casts for the upcoming production of three one-act plays. Audition turn-out was splendid with some twenty actors and actresses present to read for the various roles; ultimately, everyone who auditioned was cast.
GET UP AND BAR THE DOOR, based on an old ballad, was written in the 1930s by students at the John C. Campbell Folk School, and is being directed by Maggie Masters, newly elected President of the Clay County Historical and Arts Council. The story of a domestic quarrel, GET UP AND BAR THE DOOR takes us to the cabin of Hickory and Sal, a loving couple (Don and Gwen Weaver) who go to the outer limits of ridiculous schemes in an attempt to decide who left the door open last, and whose lot in life it will be to shut it. The complicating characters in the situation are two gossipy neighbors, Lizzie and Doris, (Toby Giannuzzi and Judith Weaver), and two good-natured thugs, Hank and Dan (Bob Perley and Greg Phillips).
PINK AND PATCHES, by Margaret Bland, is the story of Texie (Julie Sellers), a wistful young girl of 15 whose whole life has been spent in drudgery. The presence of city people in a newly-opened summer resort has given her a glimpse of another side of life, and has awakened in her an innate love of the beautiful. Rexie, Texie's brother (Joey Powell) has no new ideas nor ambitions, but clings to the old notion that women folks were created for the sole purpose of working folks. Ma (Jane Moore), the mother of Texie bL ikollcia~ NkrTio leads a hard life without bitterness and with an unbroken spirit. Mrs. Allen (Vicki
Marchat) is one of the summer people who, in her brief visits to the mountains, has opened up to Texie a world previously unimagined.
A TALE OF CHELM, one of three short plays from THE WORLD OF SHOLOM ALEICHEM (the Sholom Aleichem stories are the basis for the world-famous musical play FIDDLER ON THE ROOF), by Arnold Perl, is a folk story related to us by Mendele, the Book Peddler, (Bob Perley). Cheim was, once upon a time, a tiny village somewhere in western Europe where the Angel Rochele, (Nancy Childers) charged with distributing souls all over the earth, ran into a tree and spilled her whole bag of Foolish ones. Among them were a Melamed - a Teacher, that is - a Melamed (Jimmy Hicks); his good wife, Rifkele, (Dianne Baker), a person with definite ideas and opinions, a person of superior mentality (even for Chelm); and their great advisor, The Rabbi David (Greg Phillips) who has the answers to all questions, and even knows why the hair on a man's head turns grey before his beard. We have the tale because of a Goat - not from Cheim, but from a nearby village famous for its goats. And because one morning Rifkele sent the Melamed to purchase a goat so they could have blintzes for supper. And because every time the Melamed passed from Dodi the Innkeeper's (Toby Giannuzzi) Inn to the Goatseller's (Lyn Warwick) place of business and back again, funny things happened to the goat.
Important in forming our preliminary impressions of Chelm are The Stranger from Lithuania (Susan Weaver) and Rifkele's Friend (Amy Satterfield); and very necessary to the unraveling of the plot is Dodi's Assistant (Joey Powell). As always, the Storyteller has the last word - and Mendele's benediction is a bit more than we might have expected.
Purchase your tickets now at the Old Jail for these plays which will run from June 22 - June 25 and June 29 - July 1, 1978, in the Hayesville School Auditorium.
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