It is our extreme pleasure to announce that Lesley Kenney and Theodore Brill have been honored with awards from the Theater Association of New York State (TANYS), for their work in the Auburn Players production of, “Ordinary People.” Lesley Kennedy will receive an Excellence in Acting Award for her portrayal of Beth Jarrett. This award […]

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 […]