Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology
November 06 - November 16, 2025
Directed by: Helen Fasbaugh | Music Director - Maggie Hill
Show Synopsis
This production is an adaptation of Edgar Lee Masters’ collection of poems exploring the lives and deaths of the residents of the fictional town of Spoon River, Illinois in late 19th Century. Conceived and arranged by Charles Aidman.
The actors play several characters, delivering monologues, or epitaphs, revealing their joys, regrets, and secrets. Woven into the production are folk songs and other musical interludes. Through these monologues, the play offers a critique of small-town life, exposing hypocrisy, social injustice, and the often-hidden struggles of individuals within a community–and yes–humor.
Show Dates & Times
November 6, 7, 8, 15, 2025 7:00 pm
November 9 and 16, 2025 2:00 pm
BRITTANY BARKUS (Singer, Lois Spears)
ANGELA BURLA (Guitarist, Lydia Puckett, Rosie Roberts, Mrs. Charles Bliss)
SAM SUSIE FILIPPO (Hamilton Greene, Lucius Atherton, William, Barney Hainsfeather)
SUSIE FILIPPO (Mrs. Williams, Emily, Faith Matheney, Village Atheist, Hortense Robbins, Epitaph)
CINDY FRANCK (Margaret Fuller Slack, Mrs. Kessler, Zilpha Marsh, Aner Klute, Mrs. Sibley)
JIM FRANCK (Walter Simmons, A.D. Blood, Franklin Jones, Dr. Meyers)
SANDY GERTZ (Ollie McGee, Mrs. Purkapile, Daisy Fraser, Lucinda Matlock)
JASON HELLEN (Fiddler Jones, George Gray, Judge Lively, Elijah Browning, Willie Metcalf, Petit the Poet)
STEVE LUNDEY (Benjamin Painter, Enoch Dunlap, Searcy Foote, Frank Drummer)
KIT MALLOY (Mrs. Benjamin Painter, Elsa Wortman, Hannah Armstrong, Mabel Osborne)
CARLY REIL (Emily Sparks, Yee Bow, Nellie Clark, Pauline Barrett, Minerva Jones, Anne Rutledge)
KEN SAARI JR. (Tom Beatty, Archibald Higbie, Eugene Carmen, Roscoe Perkapile, Willard Fluke, Rev. Sibley)
JAKE VAN EPERN (Singer, Knowlt Hoheimer, Harry Williams)
CARA MATRELLA (Violinist off-stage)
DIRECTOR: HELEN FASHBAUGH
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: VIVIAN ALICE
MUSIC DIRECTOR: MAGGIE HILL
SCENIC ARTIST: TERRY HUDSON
SOUND AND PROJECTIONS: LEVI HAAS, AL HARRISON
LIGHTS: AL HARRISON, TORY LOWE, JOANN FLEMING
CAST: ALLYSON CONHARTOSKI, CINDY FRANCK
PROPS: SANDY GERTZ
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