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Dignity Players 2010 Season
Dignity Players is pleased to announce its 2010 season, as well as the casts for each production.  We will present four plays and one musical, all of which deal with individuals having a crisis of faith...be that faith in God, religion, other people, or themselves. 

The Shadow Box  March 4-6, 11-13 at 8pm, March 7 at 3pm
By Michael Cristofer
Directed by Darice Clewell
With Margaret Allman, Janet Berry, Colby Garcia, Dan Kavanaugh, Eric Lund, Mary Koster, Frank B. Moorman, Jim Reiter, Sue Struve

In this Pulitzer Prize winning play, three terminal cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital’s grounds.  The play dramatizes their anxieties and their coming to grips with the finality of their condition, a preordained future whose only imponderable is its exact length.  The three are attended and visited by family and friends.  “There are five stages that person will go through when he faces the fact of his own death; denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.  These stages will last for different periods of time, they will replace each other, or exist at times side by side…but the one thing that usually persists through all these stages is hope.”

The Last Five Years May 6-8, 13-15 at 8pm, May 9 at 3pm
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Directed by Mickey Lund
With John Halmi and Sheri Kuznicki Owen
And Ryan Shookman on Piano

A contemporary song-cycle musical that ingeniously chronicles the five year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up... or from break-up to meeting, depending on how you look at it. Written by Jason Robert Brown (Parade, Songs For A New World), The Last Five Years is an intensely personal look at the relationship between a writer and an actress told from both points of view.

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot August 5-7, 12-14 at 8pm, August 8 at 3pm
By Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by Frank B. Moorman
With Nick Beschen, Danny Brooks, Carol Cohen, Dean Davis, Tanya Davis, Stephen Deininger, Chris Haley, James Jaeger, Eric Lund, Dan Kavanaugh, Brenda Mack, Lesley Miller, Alicia Sweeney, Jason Vaughn

Not since Angels in America has a play been so unafraid to acknowledge the power of the spirit. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot takes place in Hope, a small section of Purgatory where litigation determines the fates of its inhabitants. Thanks to a writ signed by God, himself, Judas Iscariot-Jesus's infamous betrayer-is on trial, though he is in a catatonic state in Hell. In a hilarious and well-written dramedy, viewers will find themselves questioning their own opinions on despair, morality, and salvation.

The Crucible October 7-9, 14-16 at 8pm, October 10 at 3pm
By Arthur Miller
Directed by Mickey Lund
With Danny Brooks, Darice Clewell, Dean Davis, Tanya Davis, Josie Dubois, Joan Hamilton, Tim King, Brenda Mack, Carter MacLeod, Mary MacLeod, Edd Miller, Frank B. Moorman, Niji Ramunas, Jim Reiter, Kira Sharpe, Jeff Sprague, Bronwyn van Joolen

This exciting drama about the Puritan purge of witchcraft in old Salen is both a gripping historical play and a timely parable of our contemporary society.  The story focuses upon a farmer, his wife, and a young servant girl who maliciously causes the wife’s arrest for witchcraft.  The farmer brings the girl to court to admit the lie – and it is here that the monstrous course of bigotry and deceit is terrifyingly depicted.  The farmer, instead of saving his wife, finds himself also accused of witchcraft and ultimately condemned with a host of others.

Summer Production
Bloodlines July 8-10 at 8pm, July 11 at 3 pm
by Dan Baum
Directed by Mickey Lund
With Carol Cohen, Lisa Gilbert, Hallie Garrison, Gerald Inglesby, Edd Miller

When a young college student, Sarah, and her boyfriend come home to celebrate Passover, her identity is called into question as family secrets and long-held grudges are revealed. The absence of her father and the serious illness of her grandmother intensify the unraveling of Sarah's previous sense of self, security, and family harmony.