A PERFECT GANESH
 

Written by:  Terrence McNally

Drama

Directed by: Jennifer Peters

 

​February 28 through March 23, 2025

 

Advisory: Adult themes, language, and a discussion of homosexuality, best suited for over 16

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Featuring: Michelle Burkhart as Katherine, Raymond Evans as Man, Lana Hartwell as Margaret,  and Parth Kichloo as Ganesh

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The pilgrimage tradition is turned on its head when two outwardly unremarkable, middle-aged lady friends
throw themselves into a rousing tour of India, each one having her own secret dreams of what the fabled land of  intoxicating opposites will do for the suffering she hides within. Margaret Civil, an uptight example of WASP prerogative, has just discovered a lump in her breast but hasn’t told her friend. The more theatrical and adventurous Katharine seeks a respite from the haunting of her son, Walter, and even thinks of kissing the leprous hordes of Bombay to atone for the way she rejected him and maybe, she thinks, contributed to the gay-bashing in which he died. Faced with the women’s despair, who but the golden elephant god could intervene? Fluid in his power to assume any guise, at peace with all things, Ganesha is the spiritual center around which the play spins itself, drawing upon the tragic and the comic, the beautiful and the deplorable, until a breathtaking release arrives for both women at his hands.​

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PERFORMANCE DATES: February 28 through March 23, 2025

PERFORMING: Friday and Saturday* at 7:30 pm; Sunday at 2:00 pm

* NEW MATINEE: Saturday March 8 at 2:00pm. No evening performance.

TICKETS: General admission: $27; Students/Seniors/Military: $24;

Groups of 10 or more/same performance: $22​​​​​​