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have to find out,” added Mrs. O’Connor.
The reorganized Players could do more than stage productions, the two pointed out. “We could organize car pools or hire a bus to take Rappahannock contingents to Washington, D.C. for presentations at the Kennedy Center, the Warner Theater and elsewhere,” Mrs. O’Connor said. “We’d like to get more involved with the drama programs in our county schools, to offer our assistance there. We’d like to bring outside productions to Rappahannock,” she said, adding that the Players could work with the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community on some of these projects. “RAAC has to do it all alone now because the Players don’t have an organization,” Mrs. O’Connor said.
In addition to searching for new members, the Players’ telephone surveyors will seek to discover just what it is that Rappahannock audiences would like to see. “We need to do interesting and experimental things. We want to do original dramas written by our playwrights here. But we also must put on what people want to see,” said Mrs. O’Connor. “I heard so many people say, “Why can’t you do a musical? Something happy and gay without so many messages.” If that’s what our audience wants, then we must try to do it,” she added, noting that if the theater group puts on two productions a year, one could be a lighthearted musical.
The inspiration for the Rappahannock Players came from the Library’s benefit performance of H.M.S. Pinnafore. The cast and
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