Who: The Purple Rose Theatre Company
What: Lanford Wilson’s play “Redwood Curtain”
Where: Purple Rose Theatre Company, 137 Park Street, Chelsea, MI 48118
When: Evening Shows Tuesday – Saturday at 8, with 2 pm matinees on Wednesday, Saturday and Sundays until March 15
Wilson’s Redwood Curtain tells the story of Geri, a young woman searching for her birth father, who meets a homeless veteran who lives within the Redwood Forest in Northern California and determines that he is the key to the secrets oh her past. Premiered in 1992, the play was inspired by real veterans which Wilson met living in the redwoods, veterans who refused to reassimilate with society after the horrors which they experience in Vietnam. Stephanie Buck makes her directorial debut with a play which is about “3 good people going through a journey together…It’s nice to have people searching for something together. No one is backstabbing or badmouthing someone else. There’s a kindness among them that’s rare to see in a play.”
