‘Drowning Sorrows’ at Cumming Playhouse

CUMMING -- The Cumming Playhouse is welcoming the 'Drowning Sorrows' by Douglas Post to the stage in August.

The Old Alabama Road Theatre Company (OARCO), nominated for multiple Metropolitan Atlanta Theatre Awards for their Playhouse presentation of "The Boys Next Door," will be performing. Assistant Director Jim Dailey said they are excited about the new production.

"The reading committee read this about a year ago and we really liked the material," he said. "It was quite powerful and there is a lot of strength in the words that are being used. We thought it would be a great start to the 2008-2009 season."

Work began on the play eight weeks before the Aug. 7 opening day when the company held auditions for two days. Dailey said rehearsal took place for six weeks.

"The week before was our week to fine tune everything to prepare for opening night," he said. Dailey said everyone has been impressed with the work of first time director Danica Buckley.

"She is very young and has just been doing fantastic," he said. "Everyone has been enjoying working with her."

Dailey said they always love playing at the Cumming Playhouse.

"It's very intimate and a unique setting," he said. "It's just a beautiful facility."

Dailey said people have more reasons to attend this play besides just watching some of Atlanta's top stage talent.

"This play will stay with you and leave you wondering at the end," he said. "It really draws you in at the conclusion. That was some of the most fun we've had in the rehearsal process; hearing the actors discuss the scenes and the different conclusions they are drawing from their characters. It's been interesting."

The synopsis of the play reads, "Duncan Crawford, a bartender on the island of St. John, is considering abandoning his bar for greater adventure when an heiress from Manhattan, Emily Miles, wanders into his establishment. She begins to tell him the story of her life: how she was left at the alter at the tender age of nineteen by a fiance who mysteriously disappeared, how she has spent the past twenty years searching for this man, and how she now believes that she has found him in the person of Duncan."

For more of this synopsis and other coming attractions at The Cumming Playhouse, visit www.playhousecumming.com.
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