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Orpheus Descending

12/5/1973

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By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Alex Henderson

Season: ​12 - 19 May 1973

The play tells of a woman storekeeper and a handsome, guileless youth who comes in off the highway. A guitar-player, he is a rural Orpheus who descends to rescue his love—not in Hades, precisely, but amid the intrigue, gossip and violence of a hot-tempered town.  Orpheus Descending is one of Mr. Williams' pleasant plays, with characters determined to free themselves from corruption, with some sensitive philosophical comments in passing about the loneliness of the human being condemned in his world to solitary confinement for the whole of his life.

Cast:
Dolly Hamma - Norma Emmerson
Beulah Binnings - Diane Bridges
Pee Wee Binnings - Terry O'Cain
Dog Hamma - Les Bush
Carol Cutrere - Carol Craymer
Eve Temple - Chris Cherry
Sister Temple - Sue Bool
Uncle Pleasant - Angus Guy 
Val Xavier - Chris Mills
Vee Talbot - Helen White
Lady Torrance - Michelle Mannering
Jabe Torrance - Tom Kain
Sheriff Talbot - Chris Horsley
Mr Dubinsky - Les Bush
Woman -  John Welbourne
David Cutrere - Jack Baird
Nurse Porter - Frankie Collins
Clown - Terry O'Cain
Voices - Terry O'Cain, Les Bush, Graham Loader
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