Cape Rep to Present 'Member of the Wedding' Starting 11/6

Cape Rep will present The Member of the Wedding as the final production of it’s critically acclaimed 2008 Season. The Member of the Wedding will open November 6, 2008 at Cape Rep’s Indoor Theatre. Performances will continue through December 7, 2008. Steve Reynolds will direct. Robert Troie will design the set, Christopher Ostrom will serve as lighting designer and costumes will be designed by Robin McLaughlin. Travis Drageset is the stage manager. Lisa Canto and Ruby Wolf head a cast that includes Lesley Billingslea, Elizabeth Clark, Camra Goodwin, Jack Kwaak, Kathleen Healy, Nolan O’Connor and Tobey Wilson. Additional casting is to be announced. Performances are scheduled to run Thursday-Saturday evenings at 8pm with Sunday matinees at 2pm November 6-December 7th. There will be no matinee performance on November 9th.

The Member of the Wedding is the latest in Cape Rep’s American Classics Series. Set in 1945 in a small southern town, 12 year old Frankie Adams, motherless since birth, is nurtured by the family’s wise and loving black cook, Berenice. Her brother Jarvis’s imminent marriage causes Frankie to act upon her yearning to belong and connect to a wider world. This is the play that launched the career of a young actress named Julie Harris, to whom this production is dedicated.

Reserved seating tickets are $20 and are available now. For more information or to purchase tickets call 508.896.1888 or visit our website at www.caperep.org

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