The Rainmaker

ACT I Productions presents N. Richard Nash’s 1954 romantic comedy, The Rainmaker. In 1956, this play was made into a now classic film starring Katherine Hepburn and Burt Lancaster. The Curry family has suffered from droughts for a long time, eroding everyone’s hopes. Lizzie Curry, a plain looking and plainspoken woman has given up on love. She resigns herself to becoming an “old maid” until the charming con man,
Starbuck, comes to town, selling hopes and dreams – for the farm and for Lizzie.