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Trip To Bountiful
This is the poignant story of Mrs. Watts, an aging widow living with her son and daughter-in-law in a three-room flat in Houston, Texas. Fearing that her presence may be an imposition on others, and chafing under the rigid and selfish supervision of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Watts imagines that if she can get away and return to her old home in the town of Bountiful, she is sure to regain her strength, dignity and peace of mind. So she attempts to run away, and when she reaches a bus station on the last part of her short journey, she falls into the hands of a sheriff whom her son and daughter-in-law have put on her trail. The sheriff, a kindly fellow, allows her to complete the final stage of her journey, so she proceeds to Bountiful and makes a lonely pilgrimage to the scene of her hold home. Only too soon she learns that the friends of her youth have all died or scattered, and her home is no longer the spacious mansion of her memories, but a crumbling wreck. But she has the supreme satisfaction of plunging her hands into the strength-giving earth, and this leaves her with a sense of that strength and dignity which will give her the courage to survive. When her son and daughter-in-law appear on the scene to take her back to Houston, she consents to return quietly, secure in the knowledge that the remainder of her existence will be enriched as a result of her last contact with Bountiful
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CAST
Mrs. Carrie Watts..........Kristy Burton
Ludie Watts..........Ron Adams
Jesse Mae Watts..........Cheryl Morgon
Thelma..........Candice Cabanilla
Sheriff..........David Critchlow
Ticket men and travelers
Joe Rossi, Anthony Richardson, Joshua Bertrand, Brian Petrasek, James Muro
CREW
Director..........Bruce Burton
Technical Director..........S. Gary Sutherland
Set Designer..........Dan Robinson
Stage Manager..........Megan Johnston
Sound Design..........S. Gary Sutherland
Sound Board Op..........Jeff Adams
Costume Design..........Susannah Faith
Costume Asst...........Laura Landsaw
Lighting Design..........Robert W Conrad
Lighting Board Op...........Robert W Conrad
Props Design..........Arther Manzano