Dunes Summer Theatre set designer Michael Lasswell confirms a nearly 13-foot vintage rowboat can fit “snugly” in the back of his panel van. “The boat, and the scenes staged around it, are so key to the storytelling and the symbolic connection of the two characters on stage in this beautiful unfolding story,” Lasswell said. “We were able to borrow our boat from a neighboring theater, and finding it was one of the happiest days in my life.
I just wasn’t sure I could get the boat to fit in my van, but we made it work.” Set along the waterfront landscape of an aging boathouse and small dock in remote Lebanon, Missouri, “Talley’s Folly,” written by playwright Lanford Wilson, has performances 7 p.m.
Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays June 28-July 14 at Dunes Summer Theatre in Michigan City.
Robert Morris is cast as a bookish accountant named Matt, and Amanda Tomczak is a nurse named Sally, the object of Matt’s attention from a rekindled past romance. Set in 1944, the couple engages in spirited discourse, with moments of humor, as they untangle their emotions about the possibility of pursuing a relationship. The play is set in just more than 90 minutes of “unfolding real time” on the Fourth of July holiday.
“We just finished doing ‘Blithe Spirit’ here at the Dunes and actor Robert Morris had been interested in being part of that cast,” Lasswell said. “I knew his talent for a heartfelt performance, and I told him to wait until the next show r.
