Thistle Dew Dessert Theatre

An original mystery/comedy by local playwright Donya Wicken, directed by Richard Williams and featuring Ashley Lucas, Wade Lucas, Shaleen Schmutzer, Gregory Smith, Summer Hairabedian and Micail Buse.

Featured performers in an ensemble cast:

• Amber Conness & Matt Kozak -- Charlie
• Justine Johnson -- Jay
• Katherine Piper -- La Bella Donna the Prima Ballerina
• Sean McDougall -- François Marchan
• Mary Jo Connor -- Robie the Robot
• Marie Claire Tucker -- Mary Chrismouse
• Mary Coyner -- Sweet the Gingerbread Man
• Shelby Weisker -- Juno the Clown
• Jeff Morgan -- Santa
• Robert Tucker -- Stage Manager

Suspend reality for a bit of time and enjoy the wonderful work of a great ensemble of young actors directed by a talented director and accomplished playwright, Julie Greene.

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said,

"My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?"
The old Cherokee replied simply,
"The one you feed and hold close."

Join us for an evening of entertainment while we explore the ways we do -- and don't -- rely on people life puts in our path. In "Subway", Tiffany has to choose the least dangerous of two tense situations. Professor K is a respected educator in "Higher Learning" -- but will he abuse his position of trust? And in a rollicking journey to Santa Barbara, four strangers are thrown together "like 'Lifeboat', without the cannibalism" and left to the whims of fate to reach their common destination.

Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel was the senior officer in the Nazi armed forces from 1937 to 1945, and was hanged in 1946 on sentence from the Nuremberg Tribunal. Orders signed by him or issued at his direction were the authority for many of the most heinous acts of both the army and the dread SS under Himmler.
Keitel considered himself merely a soldier, obligated by oath and training to carry out the orders of his military commander, Adolf Hitler, regardless of his own opinions about their nature, subject matter, or consequences. Officers who knew him well considered him more or less as a high-ranking clerk, exercising (by his own choice) little personal discretion. In fact, their nickname for him was "Lakeitel", or lackey.

In the first debate, George 'Dubya' Bush played the smirking frat-boy. In the second, the unleashed whiner. In the third he was the smiling villain.