Ordinary People begins after a family loses its older son in a boating accident.  That leaves three living at home in a perfectly manicured suburban existence, and are forced to finally deal with the ways they really feel about one another. The play based on the book by Judith Guest and adapted for the stage […]

ORDINARY PEOPLE By Nancy Pahl Gilsenan.  Adapted from the novel by Judith Guest. October 12 – 15, 2017 at Cayuga Community College Conrad Jarrett had an older brother named Buck, and now Buck is gone. What’s left of young Conrad’s family, with his successful, well-intentioned father and his beautiful, organized and remote mother, is in […]

Everything is in its proper place… Except the past Directed by Stephen Gamba, Ordinary People tells the story of one family’s struggle to cope after two traumatic events: the accidental drowning of one son, and the attempted suicide of the other. We are dropped into the story over a year later, when the surviving son is […]

The Auburn Players Community Theatre presents Judith Guest’s ORDINARY PEOPLE, adapted for the stage by Nancy Gilsenen and directed by Steve Gamba, October 12 – 15 at the Bisgrove Theater at Cayuga Community College in Auburn ORDINARY PEOPLE tells the story of a Lake Forest High School student, Conrad Jarrett (Theodore Brill). Conrad had an […]