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Aiken Community Theatre (ACT) is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to entertain, educate, and enrich our community by providing a quality theatre experience.
ACT is funded in part by the South Carolina Arts Commission which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Aiken Community Playhouse's Bechtel Theater Coffeehouse, built upon the beatnik style coffeehouses of the 60s, will come alive Friday, October 4th featuring Robb Underwood!
October 17,18,19,24,25,26 7:30pm Oct 20 2pm
Two drifters, George and his friend Lennie, with delusions of living off the "fat of the land," have just arrived at a ranch to work for enough money to buy their own place. Lennie is a man-child, a little boy in the body of a dangerously powerful man. It's Lennie's obsessions with things soft and cuddly that have made George cautious about who the gentle giant, with his brute strength, associates with. His promise to allow Lennie to "tend to the rabbits" on their future land keeps Lennie calm, amidst distractions, as the overgrown child needs constant reassurance. But when a ranch boss' promiscuous wife is found dead in the barn with a broken neck, it's obvious that Lennie, albeit accidentally, killed her. George, now worried about his own safety, knows exactly where Lennie has gone to hide, and he meets him there. Realizing they can't run away anymore, George is faced with a moral question: How should he deal with Lennie before the ranchers find him and take matters into their own hands?
Directed by Bob Franklin
By: John Steinbeck
Presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. New York
126 Newberry Street, SW, Aiken, SC 29803
803.648.1438
