“The Last Resort” will open the season at Lakewood Theater in Madison.
Performance times are set for 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 23, and May 24, 25, 30, 31 and June 1; 4 p.m. May 26; and 2 and 7 p.m. May 29.
In this comedy about seniors, Marjorie Kendrick, the newest arrival to the Sunset Terrace Convalescent Home on Long Island, realizes that the staff is over-medicating her and other patients. With the help of her fellow residents, Marjorie plots a revolt and daring escape.
Marjorie, a widow half-paralyzed by a stroke, is dumped into a posh Long Island nursing home by her son. Most of the other elderly patients she meets in the home’s recreation room are kept docile and cooperative by the use of drugs. The only exception is Henry Downs, who, as Marjorie soon learns, avoids the diet of pills by collaborating with the nursing home’s management. Like most women her age, Marjorie has lived her life doing as she was told. But that changes following her brush with death, and as she fights her own paralysis, she strives to shake off the paralysis of the others. Little by little, the group comes to life until finally Marjorie galvanizes them into an all-out revolt.
Tickets cost $27 in advance or $29 day of show, $45/$50 for cabaret seating, $22 for children.
For tickets or more information visit lakewoodtheater.org or call 207-474-7176.
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