Valley Rep Back With ‘Alone Together’

Thu., Nov. 18, 1999

By Jim Kershner jimkershner@comcast.net

The Valley Repertory Theatre, revived from what appeared to be a terminal condition, opens its comeback play on Friday, “Alone Together.”

This is a 1985 comedy about a pair of empty-nesters who discover that the only thing worse than an empty nest is for all of the children to suddenly show back up in the nest. The play was written by Lawrence Roman, best known for the Broadway and Hollywood hit, “Under the Yum-Yum Tree.”

Two of the people responsible for reviving this community theater are involved in this production, Bob Gariepy as the director and Jodine Watson as Helene, the mother in the story. Other roles are filled by Cal Seeley, Marc Rider, Tim Brandt, Sara McBride and Bill Myklebust.

The show opens Friday and runs through Dec. 4. Performances are Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Nov. 26, 27 and 28, and Dec. 3 and 4. All shows are at 8 p.m. except the Sunday shows which are at 2 p.m.

Tickets are $8 for adults, $7 for seniors, available by calling 927-6878. The Valley Rep is located at the corner of Sprague and Pines (rear entrance).

This play has adult themes and is not recommended for children.

`The Skin of Our Teeth’

The Reading Stage, the Spokane Civic Theatre’s reader’s theater series, presents Thornton Wilder’s 1942 masterpiece, “The Skin of Our Teeth,” on Sunday.

This wild and satirical allegory about human history features a family that has a pet mammoth and dinosaur, and whose father invents the wheel. The family survives 1,000 calamities to endure by “the skin of their teeth.”

Scarlett Hepworth and Maynard Villers will read the parts of Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus. KHQ-6’s Penny Daniels appears as The Announcer.

The show is at 7 p.m. Sunday, in the Firth Chew Studio Theatre, in the basement of the Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard.

Tickets are $5, available at the door only.

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