For the October script circle, we will be reading the play "Joined at the Head," by Catherine Butterfield. We are hoping that this will be our spring student production.
Joined at the Head is the story of Maggie, a successful fiction writer, who receives an invitation to the home of her former high school flame, Jim. Maggie arrives for a weekend reunion to find that his wife, coincidently also named Maggy, is battling cancer. The unique friendship that develops between the three is reflected in the unusual style of the show - narrated as it is written by the novelist, but interrupted by characters that she can't control who step off the page and onto the stage.
Forced to struggle with the reality of death, and their human reluctance to accept mortality, Maggie and the other characters discover new joy in old friendships, strength in the vulnerability of self-revelation, and comfort in each other's company.
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