Frame 312
Tickets and Information
SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Dec 11, 2003
Closed Jan 11, 2004
2hr. 0min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
In 1963, Kennedy was assassinated, and a young Time-Life editorial secretary was asked to keep a very important secret. More than thirty years later, she decides it is time to come clean with her family about her relationship to history, and how hiding from her past has taken a personal toll. Not all stories have willing listeners, however, and Lynette is faced with wondering if some secrets should simply be kept. Karen Kohlhaas directs Frame 312, by Keith Reddin.
Opening night on Thursday, 12.11 is at 7pm.
Additional Performances: Monday, 12/22 @8pm, Sunday, 12/28 @7pm, Sunday, 1/4 @7pm
No performances: Wednesday, 12/24 @8pm, Thursday, 12/25 @8pm, Wednesday, 12/31 @8pm
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Set in 1998 as well as in 1963 and 1964, Keith Reddin's Frame 312 is a belated Kennedy assassination conspiracy play. In a wafer-thin plot that wants to feel stone-wall thick, sixtyish Lynette (Mary Beth Peil) is trying not to acknowledge her birthday and seems preoccupied. Meanwhile, her nervous-as-a-cat-on-a-suburban-slate-roof daughter Stephanie (Elizabeth Hanly Rice, who replaced Ana Reeder during previews) and volatile son Tom (Greg Stuhr), who's visiting with wife Marie (Maggie Kiley), attempt to make a celebratory fuss.
Lynette's pressing concern -- information that's revealed by young Lynette (Mandy Siegfried) in the 1960s scenes -- is that she possesses the 22-second film (at 18.3[...]