If you go
› What: “Ordinary People”› Where: Mars Theatre, 117 N. Chattanooga St., LaFayette, Ga.› When: 8 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, June 30-July 15› Admission: $15 general admission, $12 students and senior adults› For more information: 706-621-9129
Thomas White, Rebecca Lapp and Henry Tollett play the Jarrett family in “Ordinary People.”Back Alley Productions will present “Ordinary People,” the story of the disintegration of an upper-middle-class family in the wake of personal tragedy, with six performances at the Mars Theatre in LaFayette, Ga.
The play will be presented at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday evenings from June 30-July 15.
“Ordinary People” focuses on the middle-class Jarrett family, which consists of Calvin, a successful but slightly oblivious tax attorney; Beth, socialite and matriarch who has turned cold toward her family; and Conrad, their younger son. Their life is idealistic until Buck, the eldest son, is killed in a boating accident.
The story begins when Conrad, the youngest son, returns home from a psychiatric hospital after a suicide attempt driven by deep depression and unbearable survivor’s guilt. He feels alienated from his friends and family, so he begins seeing a psychiatrist, Dr. Berger.