some image

Harvey by Mary Chase

HS_Harvey

 

Show dates are April 21, 22, 23, 28, 29 & 30 at 7:00 pm

Matinee performance on April 24 at 2:00 pm

Sponsored by First State Bank of Athens

Directed by Joclyn Ewers

Elwood P. Dowd insists on including his friend Harvey in all of his sister Veta’s social gatherings. Trouble is, Harvey is an imaginary six-and-a-half-foot-tall rabbit. To avoid future embarassment for her family—and especially for her daughter, Myrtle Mae—Veta decides to have Elwood committed to a sanitarium.

At the sanitarium, a frantic Veta explains to the staff that her years of living with Elwood’s hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also, and so the doctors mistakenly commit her instead of her mild-mannered brother. The truth comes out, however; Veta is freed, and the search is on for Elwood, who eventually arrives at the sanitarium of his own volition, looking for Harvey.

But it seems that Elwood and his invisible companion have had a strange influence on more than one of the doctors. Only at the end does Veta realize that maybe Harvey isn’t so bad after all.

Support Your Local Theater

Our theater is made possible through the generous donations by members of the the community just like you.

Latest Articles