March 29 - Lipscomb Theatre presents Pride's Crossing

3/29/2012
7 p.m., 2:30 p.m.

“Pride’s Crossing” by Tina Howe 
Presented by the Lipscomb Theatre Department

Produced in association with the Southern Literary Festival

“Pride’s Crossing” was named the Best American Play by the New York Drama Critics Circle and a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

At the Friday, March 30 performance, Tina Howe will be a guest at the performance and will participate in a special post-performance talk-back that is free and open to the public. The talk-back should begin about around 9:30 p.m. general admission tickets for the Friday performance will be limited.

At 90, Mabel Tidings Bigelow insists on celebrating her daughter and granddaughter’s annual visit with an archaic croquet party. As it unfolds, she relives vignettes from the last eighty years that subtly interleave past and present to reveal the precise moment of opportunity lost and love rejected that define her life. A vibrant portrait of Mabel takes shape: her flashes of wit and humor, resilience, disappointments, youthful spunk and geriatric willfulness.

Her Boston blue blood family expected daughters to applaud from the sidelines, but Mabel had one shining moment of achievement: she was the first woman to swim the English Channel. But her willfulness did not extend to rejecting a socially ideal fiancée for love.

 

Director: Beki Baker
Where: Shamblin Theatre
When: March 29, 30 & April 5-6 at 7 p.m., March 31 and April 7 at 2:30 p.m.

Cost: $15 for individuals, $10 for faculty, and $5 for students.
Call the Allen Arena box office at 615-966-7075.

Theatre Department Official Site

This play is suitable for all ages.