MTC Presents Beth Henley's "Impossible Marriage"
Directed by Ann Woodhead.
The entire action of the play takes place in Kandall Kingsley's beautiful and mysterious garden. Kandall's youngest daughter, Pandora, is to be wed to Edvard Lunt, a worldly artist twice her age. Kandall does not think the match to be at all suitable. Flora, Pandora's older sister, who is expecting a child at any moment, plots to break off the marriage. Unexpectedly, Sidney Lunt, the groom's son, arrives with a note from his mother in which she vows to throw herself from an attic window if the marriage goes forward. Even Reverend Lawrence who has come to wed the couple has secret hopes and desperate desires. Throughout this wildly funny and moving play the characters struggle heroically with the impossibility of finding an allegiance between their civilized duties and primitive desires.
Shows thursday through saturday, sunday shows at 2:00 pm.
Located in the picturesque village of Mendocino, on California's spectacular north coast, Mendocino Theatre Company has been presenting highest quality live theater productions for more than thirty years. The company performs in an intimate eighty-one seat theater, producing a variety of plays ranging from great literary classics to modern comedies, and from much-performed gems to original dramas.
Recent years have featured productions of such classics as The Tempest and Of Mice and Men, modern comedies including Sylvia and Picasso at the Lapin Agile, dramas including How I Learned to Drive, A Delicate Balance and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and the world premiere of Donovan Holtz's No Guarantees.
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