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GPS Presents Fall Play
Uncommon Women and Others, a play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, will be presented November 4-6 in the Frierson Theatre.
Girls Preparatory School and McCallie School present Uncommon Women and Others, a play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, on November 4-6. Performances on Friday and Saturday will be at 7 p.m. in the school’s Frierson Theatre; Sunday's matinee starts at 2 p.m.
The play opens in 1976 with a reunion of classmates, five years after graduating from Mount Holyoke, an all-women’s college in Massachusetts. As the women reminisce, the audience is transported back to 1971 and the memories of their senior year at Mount Holyoke, with all the joys and sorrows of that exciting and often tumultuous time in a young girl’s life, graduation.
The play’s backdrop is the 1970’s and the political and social change that was happening all over the world and the changing role of women in society. “As only the best theatre can, the play gets better with age and offers insights to our own uncommon women of today,” says GPS theatre director Erin Schmidt. In explaining her choice, she says, “One overwhelming sentiment kept coming to the forefront of my mind...the remarkable girls that make up the fabric of this amazing institution. They are athletes, artists, misfits, leaders, peacemakers, and trailblazers. They are uncommon women and they are the foundation on which Girls Preparatory School has stood for over 100 years.”
Students in the play include Leo Browne, Bennett Burns, Leah Baxter, Mary Jane Clower, Mary Katherine Owen, Beth Day, Skylar Barnett, McKenzi Marlow, Jennie Williams, Olivia Combs, Emma Nash, Elle Jackson, Jayden Doan, Nadia Herrera, Molly Milam, Carmen Resnick, Maya Bhutwala, and Annsleigh Jones. Men’s voices are provided by McCallie students Chase Gaume, Kent Glass, Andrew Landsbergen, and Spencer Turner.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for students and children.
