Winnsboro Center for the Arts (WCA) is presenting four plays for their 2025 season. Each play has six shows at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday evenings and 2:30 p.m. Sunday matinees.
The Glass Menagerie is March 28-30 and April 4-6. It is directed by Dr. John A. Price. Written by Tennessee Williams, the play follows the lives of a family of three (mother Amanda and two adult children, Laura and Tom) as they struggle to deal with a changing world in which they do not fit in. The main themes in The Glass Menagerie include gender roles, avoiding unpleasant situations, family responsibilities, and unfulfilled desire.
Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park shows are June 20-22 and 27-29. It is guest directed by Nelson Bond. In a case of opposites attract, blissful young newlyweds Paul, a conservative lawyer, and vivacious Corie, see their highly passionate relationship descend into comical discord as they struggle to get along in their Manhattan fixer-upper apartment. Barefoot in the Park is among the top 10 longest-running non-musical plays in Broadway history, and it was turned into a blockbuster movie.
Dr. Price returns to direct Romeo and Juliet August 15-17 and 22-24. Written by William Shakespeare, Price will add his own spin to the story that begins with an age-old vendetta between two powerful families. A group of masked Montagues gatecrash a Capulet party. A young lovesick Romeo Montague falls instantly in love with Juliet Capulet, who is due to marry her father’s choice, the County Paris. With the help of Juliet’s nurse, the women arrange for the couple to marry the next day, but Romeo’s attempt to halt a street fight leads to the death of Juliet’s own cousin, for which Romeo is banished. In a desperate attempt to be reunited with Romeo, Juliet follows the Friar’s plot and fakes her own death. The message fails to reach Romeo, and believing Juliet dead, he takes his life in her tomb. Juliet wakes to find Romeo’s corpse beside her and kills herself. The grieving families agree to end their feud.
The final play of the year is A Christmas Carol, with guest director Sheila Brown. The shows are on December 12-14 and 19-21. Written by Charles Dickens, it recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. In the process, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.
Go to www.winnsborocenterforthearts.com for tickets and more information or call (903) 342-0686.
