Over the River and Through the Woods

Author(s)

Joe DiPietro

Performance Dates

October 4-6 and 11-14, 2012

Artistic Staff

Director: Diane Conrad Merchant

Set Designer: Donald N.C. Jones

Costume Designer: Donald N.C. Jones

Lighting Designer: Robert L. Clements

Stage Manager: Keriann Arnott

Assistant Stage Manager: Doug Malcom

Guest Dramaturg: Nicole Renee Moore

Dialect Specialist: Rocco dal Vera

Dialect Coach: Rebecca Baker

Dialect Assistant: Josiah Hutchings

Synopsis

Twenty-eight year old Nick, an Italian single guy from New Jersey, gets the professional career offer of a lifetime … on the opposite coast from his family. Nick’s traditional Italian grandparents, Frank and Aida and Nunzio and Emma, do their level best to keep their beloved grandson home with them on the East Coast, while a job as a marketing executive calls him to Seattle. Will Nick abandon family to pursue a glamorous and exciting career move, the opportunity he has hoped for? His grandparents wonder if he would stay in New Jersey if he fell in love with a hometown girl. And so the lovely — and single — Caitlin O’Hare is brought in as bait. But will their scheme work? This comedy by contemporary playwright Joe DiPietro is sure to resonate with audience members from university students (soon to face the same career decisions themselves) to extended family members (who have either wrestled with these same choices themselves or have struggled to release those they love to pursue their own dreams). Themes of family, professional goals, tradition, and romance are all presented in a way that reminds us to celebrate the everyday gifts of our lives.

Genre

Comedy

City

Cedarville, Ohio, United States of America

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Theatre and Performance Studies

Keywords

Over the River and Through the Woods, Joe DiPietro, Cedarville University, theatre

Recommended Citation

"Over the River and Through the Woods" (2012). Theatre Productions. Book 9.
https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/theatre_productions/9

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