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'Three Days of Rain’ Shines at JCCC
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Johnson County Community College
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College Information and Publications
913-469-8500
Julie Haas, Director, ext. 3120
Peggy Graham, Writer, ext. 3425
Tyler Cundith, Sports Information Director, ext. 3122

9/11/06
Story by Peggy Graham

‘Three Days of Rain’ Shines at JCCC

    OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – The  Johnson County Community College academic theatre department presents Richard Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain at 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, Oct. 4-7, and at 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 7-8, in the Black Box Theatre of the Carlsen Center.

     The play opens as Walker awaits the arrival of his sister Nan and their life-long friend Pip.  Together they are scheduled to hear the reading of the will left by their fathers, who were partners in a renowned architecture firm. Walker, who missed his father's funeral, is a drifter currently crashing on the floor of an abandoned New York building once occupied by his parents. Nan is the one left to deal with her brilliant – though demented – brother, now-deceased father and institutionalized mother. In an effort to bring peace to their lives, the three conjure a solution to the family puzzle.  In the second act, the story travels back to 1960 with the same three actors portraying the parents of Walker, Nan and Pip. Greenberg’s play, nominated for a Pulitzer prize, is both a mystery and a family drama .

    “What intrigues me about this play is that the audience begins to understand what these characters will never know,” said Beate Pettigrew, JCCC adjunct theater professor, and the play’s director. “It's about family and how we never know as children – and even as adult children – the absolute truth about our roots.”

    Greenberg is the winner of the Newsday's George Oppenheimer Award for Best New American Playwright and the Molly Kazan Playwriting Award. Hollywood star Julia Roberts made her Broadway debut this spring in a revival of Three Days of Rain, which was first produced Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club in 1997.

    Admission is free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first come, first-served basis. No tickets or reservations are required. For more information, call 913-469-8500, ext. 6558