The Importance of Being Earnest, a play written in 1894 by Oscar Wilde, opens the last weekend in February. It is Silverton High School Theater Department’s second play in the new school auditorium, but the theater has already hosted several community events.
A.R. Gurney’s play, Love Letters, will be presented at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, at Silverton High School theater as a benefit for the Silverton Senior Center.
Summer Lightning, written and directed by Silverton resident Michael Smith, comes to the Brush Creek Playhouse stage for three weekends beginning June 11.
Described as a backstage comedy, the two-hour play portrays actors preparing to go on stage as they apply makeup and put on costumes. They’re doing a Greek tragedy, Phaedra, the story of a woman who is cursed by the gods to fall in love with her stepson. The play is presented within the play, similar to the well-known comedy Noises Off.
