TJC's four production under way

Theatre TJC's fourth and final production of the season, "Harvest: A Texas High Plains Trilogy", opened Wednesday, April 25.

The play will run through Monday, April 30, in Jean Browne Theatre, located in the Wise Cultural Arts Center on the Tyler Junior College main campus.

All seats are $5. Box office hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. Call 903-510-2212 for reservations and production information.

"Harvest: A Texas High Plain Trilogy" is the final production of the 80th Anniversary season of Las Mascaras and the TJC Speech and Theatre Department. All stage plays this season were written by TJC alumni.

Written by award-winning playwright and chair of the TJC drama department Dr. David W. Crawford, the trilogy spans the life of Texas cotton farmer Rick Childress.

The first play, "Barren Fields" takes place when Childress is 25 and faces the first great crisis of his life with his when his wife of five years, Toni, tries to persuade him to leave the farm for the profits and lights of Dallas.

In the second play, "Squaring," Rick is in his mid 40s and is visited by the new county ag extension agent, a woman he becomes interested in enough to let her help install a new carburetor.

In the third and final act, "End of the Row," Rick nears retirement and must face the most daunting question of whether to quit the farm or not.

The trilogy has won the Texas Playwrighting Award and has received a workshop in Lexington New York, a public reading Off-Broadway and will open an Off-Broadway run next December.

TJC's Las Mascaras to celebrate 80th anniversary during 'Harvest' Las Mascaras, the Tyler Junior College Speech and Drama Club, will celebrate its 80th anniversary with a weekend of alumni events beginning April 27.

On Friday evening, there will be a post-show reception at the home of Joan and Mitch Andrews.

For more information on the reunion, please contact Betty Briggs, Tyler Junior College alumni director, at 903- 510-2371 or e-mail bbri@tjc.edu.