The Subject Was Roses

By Frank D. Gilroy

Directed by Betsy Harden

December 12, 13, 13, 1985

   The Story  

Timmy Cleary, a son who went to war as a boy comes back as a man of his own, and the varying effects on his mother and father are devastating. They have grown irrevocably apart, and can no longer reconcile the dream and the reality. A polka with his mother, Nettie throws both into fits of laughter; but then, this isn't the boy she remembers at all. His father John, gives up a lucrative business appointment to take him to a ball game but the next morning the rancor of husband and wife turns sour...

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French.

  The Cast   

John Cleary	Warren Andreas
Nettie Cleary	Mary Jarvis
Timmy Cleary	Greg Thompson

  Production Staff   

Director	Betsy Harden
Set Design	Betsy Harden
Master Carpenter	Phil Jarvis
Set Construction	Warren Andreas. Coleen Andreas, Mary Jarvis, Ron Calvin, Lis Barkowsky, Nancy Edmonds, Greg Teachman
Costume Coordination	Liz Barkowski
Lighting Design	Robert Hood, Nancy Edmonds, Betsy Harden
Lights	Robert Hood, Nancy Edmonds, Paul Nyburg, Phil Jarvis
Sound Coordination	Greg Teachman
Props	Mary Jarvis, Warren Andreas, Greg Thompson
Costumes	Liz Barkowski, Mary Jarvis, Warren Andreas, Greg Thompson
Make-up	Jane Lamb
Posters	Christine Lautt