Cast
Ben Gant - Tom Lokhorst
Mrs. Marie Pert - Kristina Cochran
Helen Gant Barton - Paige Christina
Hugh Barton - Jesse Boyd
Eliza Gant - Kate Lawrey
Will Pentland - Curtis Roth
Eugene Gant - Cameron Rollins
Jake Clatt - Jacob Bauernfeind
Mrs. Clatt - Laura Hammond
Florry Mangle - Bailey Steffen
Mrs. Snowden - Mary Borrel
Mr. Farrel - David Allen
Miss Brown - Lindsay Doerfler
Laura James - Christina Motilall
W.O. Gant - Mark Junek
Dr. Maguire - John Krueger
Tarkinton - Adam Swanson
Madame Elizabeth - Cora Macias
Luke Gant - Ben Horak |
Production
Staff
Director - Nathan Miller
Technical Director - Thom Hoffman
Costume Designer - Betty Deming
Scenic Design - Thom Hoffman & Nathan Miller
Lighting Design - Ryan Langenfeld
Sound Design - David Schwartz
Student Director - Stephanie West
Costume Crew - Jenny Hall
Technical
Staff
Stage Manager - Ashley Strausser
Light Board Operator - Patrick Fitzenberger
Sound Board Operator - Leah Pasillas
Assistant Stage Manager - Justin Weeks
Assistant Light Operator - Tom Powers
Assistant Sound Operator - Ryan Naddy
Running
Crew
Joe Casey
Lizabe Mothershead
Chad Correll
Emily Gustason
Heidi Kraft
Sarah Davis,
Britt Montgomery
|
Technical
Crew
Russell
Andreasen
Courtney Behm
Steven Bennett
Mattie Born
Joe Casey
Chad Correll
Danyelle Davis
Malinda Davis
Sarah Davis
Rachel Duax
Patrick Fitzenberger
Emily Gustason |
Levi
Halbert
Eric Hanson
Tone Hoeft
Evan Horton
Luke Jonas
Heidi Kraft
Ryan Langenfeld
Leigh Maesaka
Britt Montgomery
Lizabe Mothershead
Ryan Naddy
Andrew Newman |
Leah
Pasillas
Reid Peloquin
Shawn Peters
Tom Powers
David Schwartz
Chelsea Stein
Ashley Strausser
Michelle Thomas
Justin Weeks
Dan Weiland
Rebecca Weiler |
Synopsis
of Scenes
The town of Altamont, North Carolina, in the fall of the year nineteen
hundred and sixteen.
ACT ONE
Scene One: The Dixieland Boarding House; a fall afternoon.
Scene Two: The same; that evening.
ACT TWO
Scene One: Gant’s marble shop; one week later.
Scene Two: The Dixieland Boarding House; the next night.
ACT THREE
The Dixieland Boarding House; two weeks later.
About Thomas Wolfe
Born - Asheville, NC, October 3rd, 1900
Died - Baltimore, MD, September 15th, 1938
Thomas Wolfe emerged to national prominence with the publication of
his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel. The supposedly
fictional story is a thinly veiled version of Wolfe’s own life,
and residents of Asheville from Wolfe’s day resented their mostly
unflattering portrayal within the text. His father, William Oliver Wolfe,
was indeed a stonecutter whose work can still be seen throughout North
Carolina cemeteries. His mother, Julia Elizabeth Wolfe, did run a boardinghouse
and invested heavily in real estate. The priority that the paying guests
received over the members of the Wolfe family left a deep-rooted sense
of resentment that flows as an undercurrent throughout the story.
Wolfe spent years attempting to build a name for himself as a playwright
before the success of his first novel. Success also brought turmoil,
however, as Wolfe was caught off-guard by the harsh critics of his work
and the hostile backlash from the community about which he had written.
It took him six laborious years to complete his second novel, Of
Time and the River, and his last two novels were published
posthumously.
Thomas Wolfe died of tuberculosis in 1938, and many have speculated
about the greater literary impact he may have made had his life not
been cut so short. His childhood home, the inspiration for Angel’s
Dixieland Boardinghouse, still stands in Asheville today as a museum.
This Pulitzer Prize-winning stage adaptation of Wolfe’s story
serves as a sentimental and appropriate epitaph to the life and work
of a literary master who began it all wishing to write for the stage.