Mermaid Players Lab Show Opens

Fri., May 5, 1989

The Mermaid Players hosted three different plays, written and directed by students and theater majors. The first play, "The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis," was a story about a group of women who go to a country club for a day and their experiences there. The second play, "Riders to the Sea," was a play about an Irish family whose six sons have died. The final play, "the Woolgatherers," was about two people looking for "tenderness in a lonely, sometimes inhuman world." The plays opened on May 6th at 8 p.m., May 7th at 3 p.m. while the Woolgatherers opened on May 5th and 7th. 

Bibliography: 

Dickinsonian, May 4, 1989, pg. 5.