A quiet midwestern town with more churches than bars and a cheese factory at the center of commerce serves as the setting of Book of Days, Lanford Wilson’s play of lies, adultery, theft, assorted right-wing agendas and the politics of community theatre. Issues of truth and fidelity boil to the surface and explode in one woman’s true-to-life performance of Saint Joan. Like the French martyr, she combats the forces of intolerance, uncovering a commanding tear in the fabric of a community’s trust in faith and in each other.
There are Wednesday matinees at 2:00pm on October 22 and November 12.