Nancy Manocerian’s the cell presents

THE SAVANNAH DISPUTATION
By EVAN SMITH

Featuring

LUCY McMICHAEL, CHARLOTTE HAMPDEN, KATIE YAMULLA and MICHAEL GNAT

Directed by KATRIN HILBE
Set Designer: SARAH EDKINS
Sound Designer: ANDY EVEN COHEN
Lighting Designer: CHRIS STECKEL
Stage Management Team: DANA ROBBINS, MARCINA ZACCARIN
Dialect Coach: PAGE CLEMENTS
Produced by MANYTRACKS and ME & SHE PRODUCTIONS

the cell
338 West 23rd Street (between Eighth & Ninth Avenues)
November 27 – December 20: Opening Night – 12/06/15

Perky and persistent Melissa (Katie Yamulla) brings religious dogma and doubt to the door of life-time Catholic sisters Mary (Lucy McMichael) and Margaret (Charlotte Hampden) in Evan Smith’s THE SAVANNAH DISPUTATION. Innocently inquiring whether the sisters are interested in salvation and eternal life, she proceeds to illuminate what she calls “Catholic errors.” Fluttery Margaret begins to question her faith, and fuming Mary, in an attempt to discredit Melissa, invites Father Murphy (Michael Gnat) to a religious showdown between Catholicism and Melissa’s beliefs.

What ensues is a sometimes-humorous and often-revealing inspection of religious philosophies where everyone tries to validate their personal tenets which have carefully been molded to support the lives they have chosen. And what Smith so eloquently reminds us in THE SAVANNAH DISPUTATION is that in matters of faith right and wrong are determined by the believer.

- Laurie Lawson -