The Palos Village Players

Leaving Iowa: The Comedy about Family Vacations Book by Spike Manton and Tim Clue

April 21,22,28 and 29, 2023 @ 7:30 p.m.
April 23, 2023 @ 2:00

Palos Park Recreation Center
8901 W 123rd St
Palos Park, IL 60464

Ticket – Adult $25 Senior/Student $23

Director – Julie Zebleckis
Producers – Frann Carnivelle
Denise Goad
Dana Hall

An outlandish take on the classic family road trip, Leaving Iowa is the story of writer Don who returns home to find a final resting place for his father’s ashes. When he discovers his grandmother’s house is now a grocery store, Don travels across Iowa searching for a proper resting place for his father.

CAST

DON BROWNING – John Madison
DAD – Larry Symanski
MOM – Sheilah O’Grady
SIS – Kristel Flynn
MULTIPLE CHARACTER ACTOR – Peter Buchacz
MULTIPLE CHARACTER ACTRESS #1 – Jill Jeffrey
MULTIPLE CHARACTER ACTRESS #2 – Maelee Fernandez

ALL THE DAYS Sharyn Rothstein

ALL THE DAYS – February 17, 18, 19, 24 and 25

Miranda has done everything in her power to create a family completely different than the one she came from. But after a painful loss, Miranda suffers a lapse in judgment and invites her hilarious, complicated, and self-destructive mother, Ruth, to stay with her before her son’s bar mitzvah. As other needy family members show up in search of connection and second chances, Miranda’s already-strained relationship with her family is pulled to its breaking point. With all the kin in one place, will they all stay in one piece? A warm, heart-filled comedy about the scars of childhood and finding love, all grown up.

Cast of “All the Days”!

Ruth- Denise Goad

Monica- Jacqueline Ashcraft

Miranda- Dana Hall

Del- Bryan Riess

Baptiste- Rudy Chavez

Stewbert- Peter Buchacz

Jared – Aiden Raubolt

Leaving Iowa by Tim Clue and Spike Manton

Auditions on February 27, 28, 2023
Directed by Julie Zebleckis

April 21, 22, 23, 28 & 29

The spark behind Leaving Iowa comes from being children of parents from the now dubbed “greatest generation.” The story is a toast to their idealism and character and a little roast of their undying dedication to the classic family road trip. More specifically, it is the story of Don Browning, a middle-aged writer, who returns home and decides to finally take his father’s ashes to his childhood home, as requested. But when Don discovers Grandma’s house is now a grocery store, he begins traveling across Iowa searching for a proper resting place for his father. This father-and-son road trip shifts smoothly from the present to Don’s memories of the annual, torturous vacations of his childhood. Don’s existential journey leads him to reconcile his past and present at the center of the United States. Leaving Iowa is a postcard to anyone who has ever found himself or herself driving alone on a road, revisiting fond memories of his or her youth.