Mountain Community Theater Presents: "The Mystery Plays"

Mountain Community Theater (MCT) presents The Mystery Plays by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Director Miguel Reyna makes his return to MCT by weaving a supernatural psychological thriller and a violent philosophical tale of forgiveness and redemption. Performances will be held at Ben Lomond's Park Hall from May 13 through June 4. Friday and Saturday performances are at 8:00 pm, Sunday matinee performances are May 22nd and 29th at 2:00pm.

Admission is $20 General and $17 for Seniors and Students. Join us for a champagne reception opening night. Community Night is Friday, May 20th when tickets are 2 for $20. A special Talk Back with Director and Cast will take place after the Sunday, May 22nd matinee. This production is rated R and is not intended for children. It contains language, violence and adult subject matter. Tickets are available at www.mctshows.org or brownpapertickets.com.

The Mystery Plays are two interrelated one-acts, loosely based on the tradition of the medieval mystery plays. In the first play, The Filmmaker's Mystery, Joe Manning, a director of horror films, survives a terrible train wreck—only to be haunted by the ghost of Nathan West, one of the passengers who didn't survive. As the police investigate Joe, he investigates Nathan, desperate to understand why he survived and what Nathan's specter could possibly want. In the second play, Ghost Children, Joe's attorney, and friend, Abby Gilly, travels to a small town in rural Oregon to make peace with the man who brutally murdered her parents and younger sister sixteen years earlier. The man—the murderer—is her older brother. The Mystery Plays wrestles with the most profound of human ideas: the mysteries of death, the afterlife, faith, and fear— it possesses both whimsical and seriousness about the power of forgiveness and psychological insight, in a uniquely American way.

The production has a strong, dedicated cast of actors who help bring this story to life, playing each character to its most honest form. With MCT favorites and veterans Nat Robinson, Alie Mac, Karin Babbitt. Back for their sophomore performance at MCT are David Leach and Andrew Davids, and introducing Justin Singleton in his first MCT performance.