Vanities

Camino Real Playhouse presents Vanities by Jack Heifner, directed by Michael Wallot.

In the early 1960s, Joanne, Kathy and Mary are vivacious cheerleaders. Five years later, in their college sorority house, they confront their futures with nervous jauntiness. When they reunite briefly in New York in 1974, their lives have diverged and old-time banter rings false. This snapshot-sharp chronicle of the lives of three small town Texas girls is both a bittersweet comedy and a remarkable testament to the way many of Americans grow up. Heifner’s play captures the spirit of a bygone era as well as the eternal complexities of friendship.

The dictionary meanings of vanity include: 1) The quality of being personally vain, excessive pride in one’s own appearance, qualities, gifts and achievements; 2) Emptiness, unreality, sham, folly, want of real value; 3) A dressing table. The play Vanities means all of these things.