EP Candlelight Theatre Lights The Stage 'George Washington Slept Here'

Evergreen Park IL

01 June, 2022

6:56 PM

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EVERGREEN PARK, IL — Evergreen Park Candlelight Theatre is making its triumphant return after a pandemic-darkened stage in the Moss Hart and George Kaufman chestnut "George Washington Slept Here," June 10 through June 12. Performances will be in-person. Tickets are $12 for adults, and $10 for students and seniors, and can be purchased at the Evergreen Park Recreation Department, 3450 W. 97th St. Tickets will be sold at the door, if available. "George Washington Slept Here" chronicles the trials and tribulations of Newton Fuller who craves—and gets—"a little place in the country to call his own." Newton and his wife, Annabell, and their daughter, Madge, are hypnotized into taking over one of those windowless, waterless, almost roofless houses that dot the countryside. The ensuing troubles may be summed up by a search for water, a quarrel with a neighbor who owns not only the brook but the very road that leads from the highway to the house, the attempted elopement of the daughter with a summer theater actor, and the usual invasion of the weekend guests, including a prodigal uncle who is assumed to be rich but turns out to be just another bankrupt relative, according to Dramatist Play Services. Performances are 7:30 p.m. June 10 and June 11, and 3 p.m. June 12, in the Performance Hall of the Evergreen Park Senior Center, 9547 S. Homan Ave.