Fall Play ,e// ire and .toetz5e Director David Robey and a team ofcastmembersand staffbroughtPeter Shaffer's.comedy Lettice and Lovage to life. The story began as single, middle-aged Lettice Douffet (ICristyn Gledhill)attemptedtospiceupherdreary tours of Fustian house by elaborately dressing history wherefacts were gray. Charlotte Shoen (Rebecca Wolff) of the Preservation Trust learned what Miss Douffet was doing and fired her foralteringthetruth. When MissShoen visited Miss Douffet to make sure she was doing okay,she drank a good deal ofMiss Douffet's potent cordial made with lovage and began sharing longhidden details of her past. The two women discovered they had acommon interest in retaining the beauty ofthe past and became close friends. After a near tragedy almost separated them, the women went into a business partnership which both ofthem found meaningfuland enjoyable. Along with encouraging the audience to search for truth through both creativity and order, Lettice and Lovage left the audience in stitches. As sophomore Mallery Waters said, "Lettice and Lovage was great! I'd never seen a play take such ordinary subject matterand make it hilarious yet thought-provoking." Muchoftheplay's humor was due to the melodramatic antics of senior Integrated Language Arts major Kristyn Gledhill as Lettice, whosaw life asachance to actand who specializedindramatizingfamoustrials and executions. Freshman Communication Arts major Rebecca Wolff performed delightfullyinthesecondleadrole. She acknowledgedtheamountofteamwork and commitment that made the play a success and said,"I feel so blessed to have been a part of this production." David Frohmberg, Rebekah Nettekoven, and Rob Rasmussen IV acted supporting roles brilliantly, and thecrew astounded everyone with their realistic sets for three different scenes. 54 Harvest The Surly Man questions the vaildity of Lettice Douffet's story while she desparately tries to defend it and hold onto her job as a tour guide. Charlotte Shoen pours Miss Douffet's potent cordial made with lovage into a goblet. (Top) In response to her exa cration of history while leading tours, Lettice swears not to depart from the truth any longer: "Not so much as one cedilla!"
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