FROM THE PAGE TO THE STAGE

As stated in this blog last month, I am a playwright as well as an author, and one of the plays, Grandmothers, Incorporated, which I co-wrote with fellow author and playwright, Lillie Barnett Evans, enjoyed a production by   

The Theatre Arts Club of Detroit on March 15th and 16th. The Theatre Arts Club (TAC) is a Michigan non-profit organization established in 1910 as an all women's theatre group.  The TAC produces two shows a season.  We were happy that Grandmothers, Incorporated was one of them.

In the Two Act play, the  four amateur sleuths, who call themselves Grandmothers, Incorporated go to an isolated cabin in the woods for a  weekend of peace and quiet and, unexpectedly, encounter a notorious drug dealer hiding in the cabin.  The result is less than peaceful or quiet, but it is hilarious. 

The play, which is also the title of the popular cozy mystery novels of the same title, made its debut Off Broadway in 2010 at the Billie Holiday Theatre, and enjoyed a successful run just as it did in Detroit.  Below are  some of the photos from the Detroit production. 

The CAST of Grandmother's Incorporated (Seated-Left to Right, seated), CAROL WOTRING (Bea Bell), MARIANNE SHRADER (Chevron Harris), ERIN ANN DISANTE (Hattie Collier), (Standing-Left to Right) MARY STELMARK (Connie Palmer), PATRICIA O'BRIEN (director) and SHEILA WADE KNEESHAW (Fanny Collier)

The ladies of Grandmothers Incorporated in action

 

Playwrights with the Cast, Producer, Director, and Staff of Grandmothers, Incorporated