Theater O presents “The Outsiders”
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Says Theater O’s artistic director, Jessica Irons, “This show features a group of young actors who bring these late 1960’s teen characters to life.”
“This stage adaptation of the much loved novel, The Outsiders, deals with real people, seen through the eyes of young Ponyboy, a Greaser on the wrong side of life, caught up in territorial battles between the have-it-made rich kids—the Socs—and his tough, underprivileged "greaser" family and friends. In the midst of urban warfare, somehow Ponyboy can't forget a short poem that speaks of their fragile young lives:
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
"Robert Frost wrote it," Ponyboy tells Johnny. "I always remembered it because I never quite got what he meant by it." Cherry, a beautiful Soc, comes to share a special sensitivity with Ponyboy as she discovers that he remembers poems and needs to watch sunsets.
At the same time, Cherry's attracted to the older, tougher Dallas, and, in a sense, she's caught in the violent space between the Greasers and the Socs. While the Socs appear to have everything, the only thing a Greaser has is his friends. As these young people try to find themselves and each other, as the sadness of sophistication begins to reach them and their battles and relationships reach a resolution, Ponyboy's dying friend, Johnny, sends him a last message … I've been thinking about the poem that guy wrote. He meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep it that way. It's a good way to be. This is a play about young people who are not yet hopeless about latent decency in the midst of struggle.”
The cast includes Cavan Brouder, Henry Hoffman, Julian Salcedo, Mustafa Abdallah, Orry Shackney, Derek Rudley, AJ Jeffrey, Jacob Irons, Gabriella DiMiceli, Elena Prisament, Katelyn Battacharia, Rowan Krupp-Foshay, Anisa Ridenhour, Kieran Roye, Dylan Alter, Julianna Melendez, June Salo. The Assistant Director is Juan David Melendez.
The show runs from March 21 through 23 beginning at 7pm at Bethany Arts Community. Tickets, which cost $10, are available for sale now at at www.theatero.org.
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