Delbarton Abbey Players present "An Absolute Turkey"

How do you get a group of high schoolers to collapse in fit of laughter? Ask them to do a read-through of An Absolute Turkey, the Delbarton Abbey Players fall play, on stage in the Fine Arts Center Theater from November 7 – 9.

Delbarton performers and visiting thespians from area schools will present evening performances on Friday and Saturday night at 7:30pm, and a matinee performance on Sunday at 2:00pm. Tickets are on sale now. Adults $10 / Students & Seniors $5. Click here to select your seats and purchase tickets online.

The play is adapted by Nicki Frei and Peter Hall from French playwright Georges Feydeau’s Le Dindon, and is an acutely funny translation by Hall and Frei. The playwright Feydeau, a master of farce, employs a full suite of dramatic tricks to manipulate his characters back and forth to a surrealistic melange of complications.

The Abbey Players cast includes (In order of appearance):

Lucienne - Isabel Lagana (Villa Walsh); Pontagnac - Chris Connors ‘16; Vatelin - Will Nixon ‘15; Jean/Hotel Guest/Policeman - Gerard Menna ‘16; Redillon - Jonathan O’Brien ‘15; Mme. Pontagnac - Kate Roland (Villa Walsh); Mitzi - Louisa Fowler (Summit High School); Soldignac - Alex Baumann ‘15; Armandine - Alessandra Le Pera (Villa Walsh); Victor - Evan Schachter ‘17; Hotel Manger/Gerome - Jack Schroeder ‘17; Clara - Brielle Valenza (Academy of St. Elizabeth); Pinchard - Tristan Munley ‘17; Mme. Pinchard - Harriet Weldon (Villa Walsh); Hotel Guest - Brenna Sharkey (Villa Walsh); Hotel Guest - Maddie Boyer (Kent Place School); Inspector - Deirdre O’Loughlin (Villa Walsh); Second Inspector/Hotel Guest - Giancarlo Calle ‘17