Endstation event rescheduled
By Casey Gillis on Dec. 14, 2007
Endstation Theatre Company’s second annual fundraiser dinner, originally set for Saturday, has been rescheduled for 6:30 p.m. Jan. 12 at Ascension Episcopal Church in Amherst.
The evening will begin with a dinner and silent auction, to be followed at 8 p.m. by the first public reading of “The Bluest Water: A Hurricane Camille Story,” an Endstation original play penned by guest playwright Jason Chimonides.
Chimonides and the folks at Endstation — led by Artistic Director Geoff Kershner and Resident Scenic Designer Krista Franco — have spent the past year researching the history of Hurricane Camille, which ravaged the area, particularly Nelson County, in 1969, and interviewing local people who lived through it.
The result is “The Bluest Water,” which will debut as part of the inaugural Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival, which is set for July at Sweet Briar College.
The play, which shifts fluidly between the past and present, tells the story of Jared Boyle, a recently retired trauma psychiatrist. His final patient was a young marine named Nathan Fictner, who had just returned from the Iraq War and later committed suicide.
Boyle finds himself plunged into profound guilt and despair and is propelled back in time to the summer of 1969, when Camille hit.
Tom Stephens, director of Randolph College’s theater program, will read the role of Boyle.
The cost for both the meal and the reading is $45. With space availability, the reading can be seen without dinner for $15. Seating is limited, but can be reserved by calling Endstation’s office at (434) 381-6537 or by e-mailing Kershner at .
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