Opening tonight…

Tanya at the Community Theatre reports:

Only a Ridgeline Away opens August 26 at San Juan Community Theatre

This locally-written play will run for two weeks...

A story of the incredible bond of friendship forged between comrades-in-arms opens THIS Thursday, August 26 at 8 pm — the second locally written, full-length, adult play produced at San Juan Community Theatre.

Playwright and Friday Harbor resident Miguel Herbert describes Only a Ridgeline Away* as “a cross between Grumpy Old Men and One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”   The principal characters, Matt Slater (played by Dorian Oliver) and Michael T. Mooney (played by Tony Vivenzio), are Vietnam combat veterans and lifelong best friends.  While in their 50s they made a pact:  when they needed to transition into a care facility, they would be together.  The time has come.

Herbert says the play is full of both drama and plenty of zany antics. “The one thing that kept me from going bonkers in Vietnam was my three close friends.  Two of us were fortunate enough to make it home.  It is my goal, through this stage play, to give audience members a look at the astounding level of friendship experienced among men who have served together in combat.”

Miguel, who is also directing the production, says he wants the play to be both a tribute to those friends as well as to women veterans, especially combat nurses.  The cast also includes Lynda Guernsey as Nurse Karcher and Julie Laidlaw as The General.

Performances continue Friday and Saturday, August 27-28 at 8 pm and Sunday,

August 29 at 5 pm, as well as next Thursday through Sunday, September 2-5.

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