What I Did Last Summer by A.R. Gurney April 13, 2012

WHAT I DID LAST SUMMER by A.R. Gurney opens Friday April 13th and runs through May 5th.
Performances are at 8pm every Friday & Saturday except the 3pm Saturday afternoon matinee on April 21st.
Tickets are $10-$12; Group rates are available
for ticket information & reservations please call: (214) 801-4869
To purchase tickets online & to learn more about Lakeside Community Theatre, please visit our website: www.lctthecolony.org

The setting is a well-to-do vacation colony on the shores of Lake Erie, the time 1945, during the final stages of World War II. Charlie, an incipiently rebellious fourteen-year-old, is summering with his mother and sister (his father is fighting in the Pacific) before going off to an expensive boarding school in the fall. Although he intended to spend the summer loafing and socializing with his friends, the need for spending money forces him to take a job as handyman for an iconoclastic, bohemian art teacher, Anna Trumbull, a former member of the "upper crust" who has lost both her fortune and her regard for the ideals of her upbringing. Sensing a kindred spirit in Charlie, she tries to stretch his mind by teaching him painting and sculpture—and exposing him to "radical" ideas about life and love which, in time, persuade Charlie to reject the notion of going back to school. The result is a family crisis and, more specifically, a showdown between Anna and Charlie's conservative mother, a clash of philosophies which raises as many questions as it answers and, in the end, stimulates the self-awareness which will shape the man Charlie is destined to become.

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