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People’s Light and Theatre Announces The Day of the Picnic Cast and Creative Team

Full cast and creative team information has been announced for the People’s Light and Theatre Company production of The Day of the Picnic, set to run January 28-February 15 on the theater’s main stage. Abigail Adams will direct.

Russell Davis’ revised play is about memory and the past confronting the present when a witch doctor’s plans revenge on the widow of a white missionary thirty years later. The cast will feature Carla Belver as Betsy Fullbright, Alda Cortese as Cookie Brault and Deutero Isaiah, Michael Rogers as Julius Nkumbi, Nalini Sharma as Udaya (Dawn) Kumari Sastri and Mary Magdalene, Graham Smith as Dinko Tasovac and Elijah, and Brenda Thomas as Denise Jones.

The creative team will include Christopher Colucci (sound design), Jorge Cousineau (video design), Marla J. Jurglanis (costume design), Dennis Parichy (lighting design), and Matt Saunders (set design).

For more information, call 610-644-3500 or visit peopleslight.org.

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