The Drama Department of the St. Croix Country Day School will present the drama "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds." Paul Zindel wrote the semi-autobiographical play, which feature five actresses: Becky Bass, Alison Mahoney, Lillian Mallory, Stephanie Scribner and Sierra Shepard.
Disheveled, acerbic, Beatrice Hunsdorfer wreaks a petty vengeance on everybody around her. One of her daughters, Ruth, is a pretty but highly-strung girl subject to convulsions; while the younger daughter, Tillie, plain and almost pathologically shy, has an intuitive gift for science. Encouraged by her teacher, she undertakes a gamma ray experiment with marigolds that wins a prize at her high school-and also brings on the shattering climax of the play.
The play met with great success upon its opening in the 1970s and won several awards including the Pulitzer Prize for drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best American play of the year, and the Obie Award for best play of the season.
Performances will be at 7 p.m., on Friday, Nov. 2, and Saturday, Nov. 3, in the Country Day School Pavilion. There will be an optional spaghetti dinner at 6 p.m., on Friday, Nov. 2.
For more information, call 778-1974.
Let's start with a single, simple word. Power. I don't know of a better (play) of its genre since "The Glass Menagerie." – N.Y. Post.
The play itself is one of the lucky blooms; it survives, and is beautiful. – N.Y. Times.
