VT Drama Folks Volunteer with Beans and Rice

You MUST support this production (see below) since they are supporting us.  About 3 weeks ago Dorothy (Dor) Cosby Atkinson from the School of Performing Arts and Cinema at Virginia Tech contacted me with a request to volunteer with us on Monday and Friday at Food Distribution.  She said that all the members of the production The Good Person of Szechuan were trying to do some volunteer work in the spirit of this play. If you know Brecht, you know he pushed having a social conscience. She has come with five volunteers and were they a help.

Dor at the Fire House

Now they are setting up a booth at Opening Night for Geena Cammorata one of our AmeriCorps VISTA staff to handout info on our programs.  They are also doing a meal-in-a-can (soup, chili, stew) canned food drive to help us. WOW !!!!!
                                                      

The Good Person of Szechuan

By Bertolt Brecht

November 5-6, 9-13, 16-18 at 7:30pm; November 6-7, 13-14 at 2pm \\ Squires Studio Theater

In The Good Person of Szechuan, German playwright Bertolt Brecht meshes elements of Chinese opera, Brooklyn lingo, World War II-era socio-economic struggle, and gutsy cabaret-style songs. Into the impoverished city of Szechuan come three traveling gods, touring Earth to find just one “good person.” They find Shen Te, a kind-hearted woman living as a prostitute to pay the rent. When a “gift from the gods” allows Shen Te to open a tobacco shop, her generosity is quickly abused, so Shen Te invents a cutthroat male alter ego whose sole priority is business. With a modern translation and musical score, 3rd year MFA director Dor Cosby Atkinson directs this darkly comic and explosive piece of theater.

For ticket info go to:    http://vtsopac.wordpress.com/tickets-3/