An Evening of One Acts Presented By The Wyoming Players November 29, 2008

An Evening of One Acts
Produced by Dee Dunn & Keith Gabbard

The Zoo Story
By Edward Albee
Directed by Dan Riggsby

Graceland
By Ellen Byron
Directed by Aimee Alex

The Zoo Story

Cast: Michael Schlotterbeck & Michael Dean Connely

A man sits peacefully reading in the sunlight in Central Park. There enters a second man. He is a young, unkempt and Undisciplined vagrant where the first is neat, ordered, well-to-do and conventional. The vagrant is a soul in torture and rebellion. He longs to communicate so fiercely that he frightens and repels his listener. He is a man drained of all hope who, in his passion for company, seeks to drain his companion. With provocative humor and unrelenting suspense, the young savage slowly, but relentlessly, brings his victim down to his own atavistic level as he relates a story about his visit to the zoo.

Graceland

Cast: Dee Dunn & Katherine Mersch

The place is the front entrance of Graceland, the late Elvis Presley's Memphis mansion, the time, five o'clock in the morning, three days before the estate is to be opened to the public. Two ardent Presley fans, Bev and Rootie, are camped out before the gates, each determined to be the first to enter the sacred precincts. Bev is a bewigged, middle-aged lady with too much make-up and a brassy down-home style; Rootie is young and shy and somewhat intimidated by the raucous Bev. Wary at first, the two soon progress from dispute to shared confidences and a growing compassion that, in the end, moves the essentially warm-hearted Bev to defer the place of honor to her waif-like and touchingly sincere rival.