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John Barrymore (1882-1942) was perhaps the most famous member of a theatrical dynasty. John, his brother Lionel, and his sister Ethel were known as the “Royal family of the American theater.” John’s granddaughter Drew continues that acting tradition in our own day.
The play opens up the life of the legendary John Barrymore in a unique and theatrical manner. Mr. John Barrymore, or Jack Barrymore or Jake Barrymore, is presented as a ghost haunting an unknown theater, which, at the moment, is in rehearsal for a play.
The gods have sentenced Barrymore to this purgatorial existence as penance for his abandonment of the theater and the squandering of his talents, in the pursuit of fame, greed, and dissipation. Barrymore disputes these assertions of the gods as he painfully and humorously examines the spectrum of his life.
He chronicles his ascendancy to the throne as the finest classical actor of his generation; his arrival to the pinnacle of movie stardom; his intimate and compassionate relationships to his sister Ethel and his brother Lionel; and the explosive debacles of his four marriages.
The play has wit, terror, agony and hope, as we watch a mythological character explore the truths and deceptions of his extraordinary life.
Date 03/15/2014
Start Time 07:30 PM
End Time 09:30 PM
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