A Place at Forest Lawn
by Luke Yankee and James
Bontempo
(based on the one-act play Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn by
Lorees Yerby)
directed by Eric Wise
Performance dates: June 5 - 28, 2009
Show times: Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 PM; Sundays at 2:30 PM
Friendship is the tie that
binds in this bittersweet and candid look at remembered love,
forgotten promises, living with choices and dying with dignity.
A Place at Forest Lawn
follows the journey of discovery, peace, and ultimate
reconciliation taken by Clara, a cantankerous old lady, and her best
friend, Gertrude.
As Clara comes to terms
with the choices she has made in her life, she must confront Jack,
her estranged son. She and Gertrude also encounter an impressionable
young priest, their stoned-out, fun-loving driver, and an aged movie
actor who still has an eye for the ladies as well as his own version
of the truth.
A Place at Forest Lawn
surprises with humor, comforts with insight, and charms with
intriguing characters.
"A Place at Forest
Lawn will have you smiling, and laughing while your brain is
saying, 'Whoa, let's run that by one more time.'" - Colorado
Backstage
"A glorious comedy about
the reunion of a career-obsessed son with his mother at a rest home
filled with delightful, cleverly realized characters." - Desert
Post Weekly
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