Brett Thoms
Shawville Feb 26 2022
Pontiac Community Players are performing the play Steel Magnolias in front of live audiences between March 9 and 12 at the Pontiac High School auditorium.
There will be showings on . . .
March 9, 10 and 11 at 7:00 p.m. and a 12:30 p.m. showing on March 12.
Tickets are $20 and available at Hursty’s Bar and Grill in Shawville.
The play is being directed by Val Twolan-Graham.
“We had our first reading in 2020 at my home in Norway Bay,” said Twolan-Graham. “We were ready to perform that play in November 2020.”
After repeated delays due to Covid shutdowns, Pontiac Community Players were finally able to put on the long planned performance.
“It’s a story about the power of women,” said the director. “It’s about the power of friendship, the camaraderie of women in a small southern town.
Steel Magnolias was a play originally written by American writer Robert Harling in 1987. It’s a comedy-drama set in Louisiana. The play was made into a movie in 1989.
The six actors in the play performed a scene at a press conference on Saturday announcing that Pontiac Community Players had achieved non-profit status.
