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The Home Workshop Club

at Theatre Box | Fri Apr 21 - Sun Apr 30

Location

Theatre Box

35 Verbena Ave
Floral Park, NY 11001
(Map)
Tel: 516-900-2031
Contact Name: Theatre Box
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Date & Time

Cost:    $10-$20
Description

WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION!

April 21, 22, 28, 29 at 8:00 PM  |  April 23 & 30 at 2:00 PM

Featuring:

Daniel Bellusci as Max
Jeremy Black as George
Rich Carroll as Mickey
Rian Romeo as Paul
Fred Dimenna as Don
Patrick McNerney as Bill
Jack Rosmarin as Howard
Rob Syverson as Lyman
 
With:
Pastor George Mangan as Lynn
Eileen Lonergan as Miss Johnson
Anna Burnett as Marilyn

Written by Gregory B. Rudgers, the entire play takes place in The Home Workshop Club meeting room over the span of two meeting nights in 1958 in a small town. Years ago, men returning from the war banded together to share tools when they began to build their houses. Over the years, the club evolved into a social club for men as it appears in the play.

The club has a long history of fun, good times, good food, and of course, a traditional punch. There are tall tales told, good-natured taunting, and small-town legends recounted. Many of the men are affiliated with a local ceramics plant, either as workers in the factory or in office jobs. Others who do not work at the plant are professional men and community residents.

While the brotherhood is the driving force in the work, tension occurs in the membership due to labor difficulties at the plant. A strike is looming, and the possibility sets the membership at odds with union members and professional men taking sides against each other.

Even though the good times and merriment continue, there is an underlying tension in the club that eventually erupts into anger and frustration. When the strike is declared, the acrimony increases. It is left to some of the wisest members to remind the membership why they have the club, and how valuable an institution it is.