![]() ![]() It's more an actor's dream, or self-fulfilling thing than something that translates for an audience. "I was a little concerned when I first read it, wondering how enjoyable would a person find it. "I think if people keep an open mind, they'll find a lot of things of interest in the play," said Tim Ackerman, who plays eight different characters. ![]() The entire show is staged in a graveyard, where the former residents of the small, fictional Illinois farmland town of Spoon River share the story of the town through the stories of their lives. The characters in "Spoon River Anthology," based on the 1915 book of free verse poems by Edgar Lee Masters, are dead. The characters are interesting, and a lot of people in Tracy are interesting." "I thought the people here could relate to it in some way. "I thought it would be fun to do the play someday, and when they asked me to do a production for the Tracy Performing Arts Foundation, I chose that," McCannon said. in the studio theatre of the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts. The first of six performances is today at 8 p.m. ![]() ![]() The play is "Spoon River Anthology," and the former Tracy resident, now living in Dublin, directs a cast of 10 actors and two singers in the production for the Tracy Performing Arts Foundation. It was such beautiful free verse," McCannon said. "We did monologues from the play as class exercises. The words made an impression Diann McCannon years ago, when she was earning a master's degree in theater from UCLA. ![]()
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