“Quilters” cast members from left rehearsing a song, are Jennifer Potter Hayes, Amy Bartel, Connie Milligan, Kelly Hamlin, Patti Delano, and MaryAnn Nelson. Missing is Lani Ulrich. Photo by Carol Hansen
Quilters, a musical play performed by actors of the Mountain Theatre Company, will be presented at View on Saturday and Sunday, October 20 and 21.
The play is being featured in conjunction with the Quilts Unlimited Exhibition which will be on display at the arts center from October 13 to December 2.
The play tells the story of pioneer woman Sarah and her six daughters who face the trials and rewards of frontier life in the American west.
According to director, Alan Saban, “It’s a play that goes from one vignette to another vignette.”
It begins with Sarah announcing to her daughters that she is going to make her final quilt, a legacy quilt, with each quilted block representing a certain period in each of their lives.“So each time we do a scene, it’s actually about a block of time,” said Saban.
The quilted squares reveal their girlhood, marriage, childbirth, spinsterhood and their trials of fire, illness and death.
And when they are assembled together in the final quilt, the squares form a dramatic history of the joys and challenges in their lives.
The cast features community actors Amy Bartel, Patti Delano, Kelly Hamlin, Jennifer Potter Hayes, Connie Milligan, MaryAnn Nelson, Lani Ulrich and Stephen Wick.
Connie Milligan and Ellen Drake are musical directors, with Sue Russell serving as assistant director, as well as costume designer.
The play will be performed Saturday, October 20 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, October 21 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 and available at View: (315) 369-6411.
