Atlantic Christian College - Pine Knot Yearbook (Wilson, NC)

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PAINTING CHURCHES Mags and her father share a tender moment while Fanny struggles with her dress. Gardner and Fanny sit for Mags as she paints their portrait. Mags describes her first masterpiece which she created at the age of nine by melting hundreds of crayons on her bedroom radiator. Stage and Script presented “Painting Churches”, a comeay drama by Tina Howe. The play explores the relationships between grown children and their elderly parents. Beth Forbes, Kim Hancock, and Scott Robertson portray the members of the Church family who come to realize that what they have always believed about each other may not be true at all. Beth is Fanny Church, the elderly mother of the family, who has to cope with the senility of her husband Gardner. The manner in which she copes outrages her daughter Mags who has come home to help her parents move and to paint their portrait for an important upcoming one-woman show in New York. During the evening they share reminiscences of days gone by and come to a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses in each other. 15

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Madame Areati conducts a seance as the Condomines and the Bradmans look on. Elvira’s presence startles Ruth. Charles offers Ruth a drink. BLITHE SPIRIT Stage and Script presented Noel Coward s haunting comedy”, Blithe Spirit in October and November. The play was a fitting celebration of Halloween. The plot involves the plight of novelist Charles Condomine (Mike Sullivan), who while trying to get material for his new book about seances, accidentally conjures up the ghost of his dead first wife, Elvira (Beth Forbes). This makes things pretty unpleasant for his current wife, Ruth (Lori Dickerman), who naturally wants Charles all to herself. Ruth seeks help from a professional medium, Madame Arcati (Jill Proctor), who doesn’t want to send the ghost away, but rather wants to keep her around since Elvira is the first ghost she has managed to conjure up in her fifty-year career. Dr. and Mrs. Bradman (Mike Myles and Donna Perry) are innocent witnesses at the seance who don’t see or hear a thing and never do understand what all the fuss is about. The last character is Edith (Mary Printz), the maid who knows much more about what is going on than anyone gives her credit for. The action moves quickly and furiously as the two wives fight over who should keep Charles permanently. Charles has plans of his own, however, and with mysterious help, manages to keep his sanity and arrange his life the way he wants it. i

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The cast of Blithe Spirit practices. 16