"She totally gets it," said Rodrigues, 54, whose characters range from 36 to 96 years old. She, too, first heard some of the poems in theater class, and, like McCannon, loves Lucinda. Lucinda Matlock is one of the eight characters brought to life by Lisa Rodrigues, who teaches drama at Wanda Hirsch Elementary School and returned to the stage a few years ago after her own children had grown. At 96, she said, 'I've lived long enough.' That was it. You have a certain amount of time to win and if you don't, get out. He was a boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor. "He's agonizing after his life is over that he never grabbed at life, never grabbed at love, wasn't ambitious. "One character, George Gray, never took a chance in his life," McCannon said. McCannon, who spent 10 years as a professional actress, guest starring in television series, working in commercials and touring at one time with "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf," said several characters touch her. You'll find segments of the audience identify with some of the characters in the show." But, it's music infused, and because of the pathos and the humor, people will come away thinking it was interesting to see a slice of Americana. It's more an actor's dream, or self-fulfilling thing than something that translates for an audience. "I was a little concerned when I first read it, wondering how enjoyable would a person find it. "I think if people keep an open mind, they'll find a lot of things of interest in the play," said Tim Ackerman, who plays eight different characters.
The entire show is staged in a graveyard, where the former residents of the small, fictional Illinois farmland town of Spoon River share the story of the town through the stories of their lives. The characters in "Spoon River Anthology," based on the 1915 book of free verse poems by Edgar Lee Masters, are dead. The characters are interesting, and a lot of people in Tracy are interesting." "I thought the people here could relate to it in some way. "I thought it would be fun to do the play someday, and when they asked me to do a production for the Tracy Performing Arts Foundation, I chose that," McCannon said.
in the studio theatre of the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts. The first of six performances is today at 8 p.m.
The play is "Spoon River Anthology," and the former Tracy resident, now living in Dublin, directs a cast of 10 actors and two singers in the production for the Tracy Performing Arts Foundation. It was such beautiful free verse," McCannon said. "We did monologues from the play as class exercises. The words made an impression Diann McCannon years ago, when she was earning a master's degree in theater from UCLA.
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