The Cover of LIFE
by Wimberley Players
Mar. 03 - Mar. 10 (2022)
Tood, Weetsie, and Sybill are brides in rural Louisiana in 1943. Each married a Cliffert brother. The men are off to war and a local news story about these young wives keeping the home fires burning intrigues Henry Luce. He decides that they belong on the cover of Life magazine and assigns Kate Miller to the story. She has been covering the war in Europe and, though she views doing a "women's piece" as a career set-back, she accepts because it will be her first cover story.
Kate spends a week with the Cliffert women and her haughty urban attitude gives way to sympathy as she begins to understand them while coming face-to-face with her own powerlessness in a man's world.
Filled with charm and fun, The Cover of Life is a deeply affecting story about the struggle for self worth.
-- Concord Theatricals
The Wimberley Players is iso a male actors, 20s, to fill the role of Tommy in The Cover of Life.
Tommy is 20 years old. The youngest brother of four sons in the family. Eager, friendly, insecure. He is a sailor, serving in the South Pacific, in love with his wife but afraid to go against his brothers.
First read through was this week. Tech is April 23 and 24, with opening on April 29. It runs four weekends, closing May 24.
If interested, please contact Tracy Arnold @ tjarnold50@gmail.com as soon as possible.
