{"id":108025,"date":"2015-11-26T00:15:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T07:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sunflower-theatre-to-stage-live-play-on-dec-10\/"},"modified":"2015-11-26T00:15:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T07:15:34","slug":"sunflower-theatre-to-stage-live-play-on-dec-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sunflower-theatre-to-stage-live-play-on-dec-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunflower Theatre to stage live play on Dec. 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Will Furse, Crystin Gellatly, Colleen Donley and Joy Horvath Imel rehearse for \u201cMiracle On South Division Street.\u201d<\/span>Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Live theater is coming to downtown Cortez next week with the kickoff of the two-act play \u201cMiracle on South Division Street,\u201d directed and acted by a local cast at the Sunflower Theatre.<\/p>\n

The comedic play centers around Nowak family of Buffalo, N.Y. \u2013 Polish-American, Roman-Catholics whose identities have been rooted in a generational tale that the blessed mother appeared to their grandfather in his barbershop window.<\/p>\n

The Nowaks\u2019 world gets turned upside down when a deathbed confession reveals they might not be who they think they are.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about a mother and her three grown children dealing with questions of their culture, traditions, and faith. And how each member to terms with those questions of cultural identity and faith with humor,\u201d said director Peggy Tennyson.<\/p>\n

Joy Horvath Imel stars as mother Clara; Will Furse plays her son, Jimmy; Colleen Donley plays headstrong oldest-daughter Bev; and Crystin Gellatly plays Ruthie, the youngest of the clan who stirs up trouble when she announces her desire to stage a production of the family\u2019s history \u2013 the real version. It\u2019s the stage debut for Horvath Imel, Furse and Donley.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy creating this theater and space, we\u2019ve also created a home for community theatre, where Cortez has lacked that,\u201d said Sunflower Theatre director Kim Welty. \u201cPart of our passion and mission is to create a space for people to explore and grow. We have three cast members who have never acted before.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actors say they got involved to contribute to a burgeoning cultural scene in Cortez.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully this inspires more people to come out of the woodwork to support and get involved in what will hopefully be, a long-lasting community theater,\u201d said Gellatly.<\/p>\n

The play runs Dec. 10-13. For showtimes and tickets, visit Sunflowertheatre.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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