The story:
“Ingeniously touching and intensely real,” wrote the critic of The Baltimore Sun. “Convincing, suspenseful, touching,” was the comment of the New York Times critic who concluded his review with the observation that this was “affecting, too. How otherwise explain the tears that come to one’s eyes at the end.” This is the compelling story of Charlie, a mentally retarded man, and the strange interweaving of his life with that of Algernon, a mouse. Experimental surgery has been performed on Algernon increasing his intelligence fourfold. The operation is tried on Charlie, whose intelligence rapidly increases to that of a genius, far more intelligent than his teacher, Alice Kinnian, or the doctors who created the operating technique. As Charlie approaches the peak of his brilliance, Algernon shows frightening symptoms of regression. The play becomes a race against time in which Charlie tries to keep his new intelligence long enough to save himself and thus continue what he and Alice have found. This is a different kind of play: poignant, romantic, funny and tragic, but with hope of man’s indomitable spirit.
Read a portion of the play HERE.
Charlie Gordon: Dustin Bond
Alice Kinnian: Anna Harris
Professor Nemur: Ric McFadden
Dr. Strauss: Bart Jones
Burt: Corben Kirton
Mrs. Donner/Mrs. Mooney: Nancy Knox
Mother: Natalee Hessler
Father: Dale Grove
Doris, Nurse, Mrs. Feldman, Norma: Courtney Slough
Frank/Teenage Charlie: TBA
Joe/Mr Harvey: Cameron Wunderlich
Gina/Jackie Welberg: Allyson Taylor
Ellen/Anne Welberg; Shayanne Scott
Little Norma: Hannah Jernagan
Little Charlie: Colton Hessler
Chairlady/Mrs. Nemur: Grace Buehler