One night in the lives of two unlikely sweethearts will be presented by Lee Theatre, beginning Friday, Sept. 28, in the Buzz Oates Black Box Theatre on the Lee University campus in Cleveland, Tennessee.
The setting for “Talley’s Folly,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Lanford Wilson, is a deserted Victorian boathouse on the Talley farm on the Fourth of July.
“This play is a beautiful exploration of two hurting people who find one another despite challenges,” says Dr. Christine Williams, associate professor of theatre.
“Talley’s Folly,” directed by Lee student Anna Marie Brendel, is set in Lebanon, Missouri, in 1944. It follows the love story of Matt Friedman, an accountant from St. Louis, who has arrived in Lebanon to plead his love to Sally Talley, who rebuffs his affections for fear of her family’s disapproval of their union.
Brendel is senior double majoring in theatre and music.