Step back in time to 1910 in Possums' final weekend of 'I Remember Mama'
The Possum Point Players production of "I Remember Mama" transports audiences back in time to 1910 San Francisco. Audience members have commented on the attention to detail in both costumes and set design and decoration.
Costume designer and cast member Marsha Shull of Dagsboro has created many new costumes for this show, along with her costume crew of 10. The family members have multiple costumes that help show the children growing up as the show progresses over six years.
Set construction lead Jim Hartzell of Georgetown worked with 32 set crew members over several weeks to build the two-story set and accompanying set pieces. Set artist Kim Klabe painted the attic and the wooden floor, complete with a painted braided rug. Props mistress Donna Flomp and members of the cast searched high and low for items that would be authentic to the period and set the tone for the show, as well. Gary Connolly, a father of one of the cast members, happened to have a cast-iron stove that could be used in the set, which helped anchor everything else in the correct time period.
As with all Possum Point Players community theater shows, it takes a team of people to put everything together. This effort has not been lost on audience members who are quick to tell memories they have of growing up in similar houses or memories they have of the “I Remember Mama” TV show, which ran from 1949-1957.
In the stage show "I Remember Mama," Mama, played by E.J. Panico of Seaford, with Papa, played by Pat Erhardt, also of Seaford, and their motley assortment of eccentric relatives, friends, and boarders, raise four children through childhood in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Mama's compassion and wisdom prevail through illness, poverty, romance, life-changing decisions of Mama's children and sisters, and the arrival of Mama's boisterous uncle.
"I Remember Mama" is being performed at 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday, June 15 and 16, and at 2 p.m., Sunday, June 17, at Possum Hall in Georgetown. Tickets are $18 for adults, $17 for students and seniors, and $5 for children 12 and under. Tickets are on sale online at www.possumpointplayers.org and also by phone at 302-856-4560.
"I Remember Mama" is being produced through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service Inc. Possum Point Players is supported, in part, by grants from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.
