Grace & Glorie

by Tom Ziegler

About The Show

This humorous and heartfelt story finds two very different women, an independent 90-year-old mountaineer and a hotshot city slicker turned volunteer caregiver, learning about friendship, hospice and each other.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tom Ziegler’s Grace and Glorie (first presented in workshop at The Shenandoah Valley Playwrights Retreat as Apple Dreams in 1990) went on to a successful Broadway run starring Estelle Parsons and Lucie Arnez. Hallmark Hall of Fame filmed it for television with Gena Rowlands as Grace and Diane Lane as Glorie. The play has had numerous productions nationally and internationally, including a sold-out run in Vienna. Mr. Ziegler has written a new translation adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s Servant of Two Masters, which was produced at Washington and Lee University Theatre in Virginia. Other works include the musical Glory Bound, Home Games, and The Ninth Step. A native Chicagoan and a product of Chicago’s famous Second City, Mr. Ziegler migrated to the warmer climate of western Virginia where he teaches playwrighting and scene design at Washington and Lee University in Lexington. Thirty years later he’s following his love for education and is glad he took what he calls the best advise he was ever given….”take the job”. He claims, “that’s the main thing I do. I never say I’m a writer. I think of myself as a teacher who writes.” And aren’t the best teachers all storytellers at heart?

Notes from Ar-tistic Director Charles Burr

One of my happiest experiences in the theatre was the 2002 production of Grace and Glorie for Tibbits Summer Theatre in January. All involved hoped to bring it to a wider audience as part of the summer theatre, and now we are. This funny, tender, intelligent play deals with two very different women: one a feisty, 90 year old mountaineer, the other a hot shot city slicker turned volunteer caregiver. They learn from each other and bond in ways that neither ever thought possible.

It is our great good fortune to have Gloria Logan and Donna Schulte back in the roles they performed---roles that our audience has asked—repeatedly-- for them to reprise. Whether you are seeing it for the first time or chanced to see the previous production, it is a play you will welcome into your heart.

Presented with the generous support of:

CHC Hospice Services