Marguerite Wurtz, Tracey Fama, Catherine Rowe in AND MISS REARDON DRINKS A LITTLE

AND MISS REARDON DRINKS A LITTLE

The Black Box Series

at

Villagers Theatre

proudly presents

AND MISS REARDON DRINKS A LITTLE

by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright

Paul Zindel

Director - Jonathan Wierzbicki of Flemington

Producer - Tina Lee of Somerset

Stage Manager - Stephanie Simons Neal of Fanwood

After the death of her mother and an unfortunate encounter with a stray cat in Italy, Anna Reardon (Tracey Fama of South Bound Brook) suffers an embarrassing breakdown at her teaching job. Her sisters, who also work in the school system, have differing reactions to this development. Catherine Reardon (Marguerite Wurtz of New Providence), the middle sister, crawls further into her liquor bottle. The oldest sister - and the only one to have married and escaped their girlhood home - Ceil Adams (Catherine Rowe of Somerset) decides to take steps to have Anna put away. As the sisters are battling it out, they are interrupted by neighbors Bob and Fleur Stein (David Neal of Fanwood and Alison Byrne of Metuchen). The Steins have come ostensibly to give Anna a Get Well gift, but they have other, hidden agendas. The pathos and drama of AND MISS REARDON DRINKS A LITTLE is relieved by the sardonic, twisted humor of the emotionally crippled sisters.

Elaine Wallace of Flemington appears as the landlady, Mrs. Pentrano, and John McDonough of Flemington plays the role of the Delivery Man. Director Wierzbicki is staging this production fully in the round in Villagers’ newly refurbished Black Box. This will help bring the audience into intimate contact with the lives of the Reardon sisters.

AND MISS REARDON DRINKS A LITTLE opens on July 7th and runs through July 22nd, 2006 in the Black Box at Villagers Theatre, located in the Franklin Township Municipal Complex at 415 Demott Lane in Somerset, NJ. Friday and Saturday performances are at 8 p.m. There will be one Sunday matinee on July 16 at 2 p.m. All tickets are $12.00. Reservations can be made by calling the box office at (732) 873-2710. Directions and further information about this and future productions at the theater can be found on the website at www.villagerstheatre.com .