Community EVENTS
TICKET PRICING:
• Front Orchestra: $49
• Orchestra & Front Balcony: $39
• Rear Orchestra & Rear Balcony: $29
( Gadsden ) Of Mice and Men
Wallace Hall
• This outstanding drama was very successful on Broadway and has become
one of our most consistently popular
titles. A tremendously moving study of
the character of two roving farmhands,
one of whom—"with the strength of a
gorilla and the mind of an untutored
child" —unwittingly murders a woman,
and is killed by his friend to prevent his
falling into the hands of the law.
• Two drifters, George and his friend Lennie, with delusions of living off the "fat
of the land," have just arrived at a ranch
to work for enough money to buy their
own place. Lennie is a man-child, a little
boy in the body of a dangerously powerful man. It's Lennie's obsessions with
things soft and cuddly, that have made
George cautious about who the gentle
giant, with his brute strength, associates with. His promise to allow Lennie to
"tend to the rabbits" on their future land
keeps Lennie calm, amidst distractions,
as the overgrown child needs constant
reassurance. But when a ranch boss'
promiscuous wife is found dead in the
barn with a broken neck, it's obvious
INSIGHT
that Lennie, albeit accidentally, killed
her. George, now worried about his own
safety, knows exactly where Lennie has
gone to hide, and he meets him there.
Realizing they can't run away anymore,
George is faced with a moral question:
October 2015