The Celebration Company Presents the Delightful Farce, Charle's Mee's Wintertime!

The Celebration Company Presents


DECEMBER 4–20, 2014 

Wintertime
by Charles Mee
directed by Timothy O'Neal
Featuring: Evan Smith, Katie Prosise, Deb Richardson, Jeff McGill, Aaron Clark, David Barkley, Nancy Keener, Diane Pritchard, Wen Bu, and Lincoln Machula
In this loopy operatic farce, the surreal collides with sex and the profound smashes up against slapstick. During a late December snowfall, Jonathan and Ariel, a young couple in love, arrive at Jonathan's family summer house for a romantic getaway. Ready to propose marriage, Jonathan is interrupted by his mother Maria and her lover Francois, who have also decided to use the house for the weekend. This unexpected turn of events is followed by the arrival of Jonathan's father Frank and his father's lover Edmund who have also shown up for a romantic weekend. As pleasantries snowball out of control, Bertha, an elderly woman, bursts in and explains that her lover Hilda has fallen through a hole in the ice and is drowning. As the group frantically runs around gathering rescue equipment, Hilda enters alive and soaking wet. It does not take long for suspicions and jealousies to resurface, and soon all of the lovers demonstrate their frustration in a performance that is both operatic and farcical.
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