SJCT and Island Stage Left Team Up for Jefferson Play

Thomas Jefferson, played by Island Stage Left’s Daniel Mayes, gets a chance to talk to San Juan Islanders – Jan Bollwinkel-Smith photo. Click for larger version

From This Desk: A Reflection on Thomas Jefferson in Three Acts, directed by Helen Machin-Smith, will be presented in San Juan Community Theatre’s Gubelman Theatre Thursday through Sunday, September 26-29.

Playwright and islander Don Pollard moves the audiences into the study of the third President of the United States for a close-up chat that takes us from his efforts to expand the West; to the end of his life and his tumultuous relationship with John Adams; to present day and Jefferson’s take on how the Founding Fathers’ plans have fared.

“This play is about whether there is still relevance to what Thomas Jefferson and the Founding Fathers said and did more than two centuries ago,” said Pollard. “At the end of the play, you’ll get the drift!”

Seating is limited to 67 people each night. Thursday and Friday’s performance sold out quickly, prompting SJCT to add a second Sunday performance at 7:30 p.m. (there is also a now sold out performance at 2:00 p.m. Sunday). Saturday’s 7:30 p.m. performance is a festival seating, “pay as you can” event: folks are encouraged to arrive when doors open at 6:30 p.m. to secure a seat. There will also be waiting lists starting one hour before each sold out performance.

The presentation of From this Desk has been generously underwritten
by Westwind Aviation. For more ticket price information, visit www.sjctheatre.org or call the SJCT box office at 378-3210. The box office is open Tuesdays through Fridays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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