Articles Tagged With: The Bowie Playhouse

(L to R) Louis B. Murray as Troy, Ryan Willis as Lyons, Tillmon Figgs as Bono and JoAn Monplaisir as Rose in August Wilson's Fences at Bowie Community Theatre 📸 Reed Sigmon.

Fences at Bowie Community Theatre

As I watched this long-awaited production of August Wilson’s Fences from the Bowie Community Theatre (it was set to open in March 2020 before life got so much more… interesting), I couldn’t help recalling lines from Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse”:

They f*ck you up, your mum and dad.  

    They may not mean to, but they do.  

They fill you with the faults they had

   

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The Last Night of Ballyhoo at Bowie Community Theatre

As I
watched The Last Night of Ballyhoo, written by Alfred Uhry and directed
by Ilene Chalmers, at the Bowie Community Theatre, I had a thought somewhere during
Act I, Scene 4: “This play really is about something.” This is
not to say that I disliked the production before that; even before coming to
that revelation I would have acknowledged the stellar set and the faultless
performances from the cast.

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