HAMILTON – Colorful characters in every community weave the fabric of our lives; creating a special quilt that warms our spirits, takes us on journeys, bonds us with our neighbors, and enriches our lives. The Palace Players, Hamilton’s community theater, presents Judevine, a play that will inspire conversation about its characters and their tenacious will to survive.
Judevine is performed Friday, Oct. 15 and Saturday, Oct. 16 at 8 p.m. The Palace Players are proud to present Judevine, but want the public to know the play contains adult content and language that uses real life as its story. Tickets may be purchased from The Palace Theater, or before each show when the doors open at 7:30 p.m.; $10 for adults and $7 for seniors and students. Seating is limited so reservations are highly suggested.
A poor rural mountain town in northern Vermont is the setting for Judevine with incredible physical beauty, great suffering and hardship. A collection of lyrically beautiful and compelling portraits of ordinary people; by turns raucous and bawdy, delicate and painful, intensely funny, loving and angry, takes the audience on a journey in a parade of lives seen singly and in relation to others: Raymond and Ann, together 50 years are a mythic vision of love, warmth and cooperation; Grace, whose tortured and lonely life explodes into bitterness and jealousy; Vietnam vet, Tommy, who in isolation withdraws into himself; Lucy who has literally lost her mind and Jerry who loves and protects her; Alice who is "half man, half woman" embraces other people's lives; Laura and Edgar pass their ordered, proper and restrained days while bursting with repressed passion for each other; and Antoine, the bad talking saint and irrepressible lover.
Director Alessandro Trinca says. “This is a true ensemble production and the cast has been amazing. They have been working hard and I am so proud of all of them for rising to the task of this powerful piece.”
The Palace Players, Hamilton’s community theater boasts a talented cast: (Hamilton residents) Clara Lantz, Bruce Ward, Nick Priniger, Wyatt Galusky (Clinton), Tio Schluter (Norwich), Linda Hogue (Madison), and (Colgate students) Nadya Greenberg, Becca McArthur, Karen Boscom, and Kelsie Anson.
David Budbill, Judevine author, is a poet, author and previous National Public Radio host (www.davidbudbill.com). Garrison Kieller, host of Prairie Home Companion, has read many of Budbill’s poems on his program. Visit the NPR website to hear one of those readings: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/programs/2007/01/01/#wednesday.
All Palace Theater performances are live and in glorious 3D (no glasses necessary). The Palace Theater continues its 4th season of live national acts with Deep Blue (Nov. 20) and Step Afrika (March 25 & 26). Learn more about these featured shows as well as the family series and school field trips by visiting www.palacetheater.org or calling (315) 824-1420.