PUNXSUTAWNEY — The Punxsutawney Theatre Arts Guild declares, “We are eager to present a wise and witty play that offers big thoughts, big laughs and a big challenge for our audiences with this next one. You’ve got to commit yourself to seeing ‘The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord.’ It will raise a chuckle and make you think twice.”
PTAG’s production of the work by Scott Carter, via Dramatists Play Service Inc., is said not to disappoint. The 90-minute work will be staged Friday, Nov. 8, and Saturday, Nov. 9, at the Punxsutawney Presbyterian Church on the corner of Union and Findley streets. The show begins at 7:30 p.m., and tickets can be purchased at the door. Patrons’ tickets are also honored.
The show’s director, Jef Dinsmore, states, “By the title alone, this play, ‘The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord,’ sounds a bit cerebral and overbearing. Well, maybe it is a bit but it is not stuffy, long-winded or boring by any means. Yes, you will get the three figures from the title into one space and they will expound on why they are trapped together in one room. Think of it this way — they are in one of those Escape Room-style games and must strive to work together to get out. But what they discover about each other and themselves is profound, and the unique and funny ways they do that will make you laugh. Along the way, they wrap their minds (and make you do the same) around such topics as morality, mortality, the Holy Bible and more. We took the challenge to stage it; you take the challenge of seeing it!”
