Of Mice and Men is a powerful production, strongly gripping despite the familiarity of the tale...
Considered one of John Steinbeck's best works, Of Mice and Men is a moving character study that deals with questions of lonliness, loyalty, dreams, and ultimately life and death.
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 obsession 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 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 that Lennie, albeit accidently, killed her. George, now worried about his own safety, knows exactly where Lennie has gone to hide, and meets him there. Realizing they can't run away anymore, George is faced with with a moral question: how should he deal with Lennie before ranchers find him and take matters into theor own hands.
(Reprinted from the back cover of the play - Distrubited by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.)
Photos from the production. (Photos by Stacey Beatty)
August 15-18, 23, 24th 2002. Directed by Jim Dougherty
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