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"Grace & Glorie"

Grace & Glorie
By Tom Ziegler
Directed by Doug Davis

This charming play is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Grace, a feisty 90-year-old cancer patient, has checked herself out of the hospital and returned to her beloved homestead cottage to die alone. Her volunteer hospice worker, Glorie, is a Harvard MBA recently transplanted to this rural backwater from New York. Glorie is tense, unhappy, and guilt-ridden, her only child having been killed in an auto accident when she was driving. As she attempts to care for and comfort the cantankerous Grace, the sophisticated Glorie gains new perspectives on values and life's highs and lows.

"A sentimental odd couple crowd pleaser . . . [with] a steady drip of easy laughs." - The New York Times

"A lot of good humor . . . artfully designed to confirm hopes . . . offers the opportunity for good, honest, grandstanding acting." - The New York Post

Cast:
Grace Stiles ............Marty Essig
Gloria Whitmore ......Kristen Wilson