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By Richard Lykes
Special to the Rappahannock News
First performed on Broadway by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, “Ancestral Voices” has been compared to a beautiful chamber work of American family drama.
As in a concert, the five performers stand or sit on chairs in front of their music stands and read their scripts like they would music, rather than memorize their parts. Yet the emotions of the actors as they recall and share their memories of change, loss and suffering—sometimes comical, sometimes joyful—come through loud and clear.
“Ancestral Voices” will be performed at the Ki Theatre in Little Washington on Saturday, April 3 at 8 p.m.
This evocative period piece, written by playwright A. R. Gurney who also wrote the popular play “Love Letters,” tells the story of a well-to-do “WASP” family in Buffalo, N.Y. in the pre-World War II period between 1935 and 1942. The story is narrated through the diary recollections of the son whose family is deeply affected by the divorce of his grandparents and relates how they cope with that difficult time in their lives.
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