[Vision2020] Moscow Fire Dept Fundraise - The Guys

[John Dickinson]

Visionaries-

Below is a press release about an upcoming fundraiser for the Moscow
Volunteer Fire Department, a staged reading of The Guys by Anne Nelson,
presented by Sirius Idaho Theatre.

 

Full details are contained in the press release below. We are enthusiastic
about this play and want to share this news with you and those with whom you
communicate.

 

John Dickinson
Chair, Board of Directors
Sirius Idaho Theatre
Moscow, Idaho

 

 

For immediate release - September 28, 2005

Contact: John Dickinson, Chair, Board of Directors, Sirius Idaho Theatre

johnd at moscow.com or 208-301-4361

www.SiriusIdahoTheatre.com <http://www.SiriusIdahoTheatre.com/> 

 

Sirius Idaho Theatre (SIT) announces a staged reading of The Guys as a
fundraiser for the Moscow Volunteer Fire Department. Performances of The
Guys, by Anne Nelson, SIT's second production of their 2005-06 season, take
place at 7:30 pm on Friday and Saturday, October 14 & 15, 2005, at the
Downtown Moscow Fire Station (603 S. Main St., Moscow, Idaho). Directed by
Pam Palmer, SIT's Managing Artistic Director, The Guys features Kelly
Quinnett as Joan and Peter Aylward as Nick. Quinnett, Associate Professor of
Theatre at the University of Idaho, previously worked with Palmer during the
2004 production of Proof. Aylward, a professional actor living on the
Palouse, starred as Pato in SIT's first play of the season, The Beauty Queen
of Leenane.

 

Ticket prices for The Guys are $20 each, with all proceeds benefiting the
volunteer firefighters. Advance tickets can be purchased at BookPeople of
Moscow (521 S. Main St., Moscow, Idaho) and at Moscow Fire Station #3 (229
Pintail Lane, Moscow, Idaho). Tickets are also available through the mail by
contacting John Dickinson, Chair of SIT's Board of Directors,
(johnd at moscow.com, 208-301-4361).

 

"A generous, sad, touching play about the braveries of grief." -NY Post

 

"[A] straight-from-the-gut beautifully written two-hander.laughter is heard
as often as sobs." -CurtainUp.com

 

"Ms. Nelson's play.gives credible and powerful voice to a very specific kind
of pain.perhaps the keenest message to emerge from THE GUYS is the assertion
that writers-and actors-have a serious role to play in a grieving society."
-NY Times 

 

THE STORY: Less than two weeks after the September 11th attacks, New Yorkers
are still in shock. One of them, an editor named Joan, receives an
unexpected phone call on behalf of Nick, a fire captain who has lost most of
his men in the attack. He's looking for a writer to help him with the
eulogies he must present at their memorial services. Nick and Joan spend a
long afternoon together, recalling the fallen men through recounting their
virtues and their foibles, and fashioning the stories into memorials of
words. In the process, Nick and Joan discover the possibilities of
friendship in each other and their shared love for the unconquerable spirit
of the city. As they make their way through the emotional landscape of
grief, they draw on humor, tango, the appreciation of craft in all its
forms-and the enduring bonds of common humanity. THE GUYS is based on a true
story. (Dramatists Play Service)

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