“Grace and Glorie” Opens July 29

Lola DeVillers and Keri Grimsley star in Rogue Theater’s production of Grace and Glorie, a play set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Grace, a feisty 90-year-old cancer patient, played by DeVillers, has checked herself out of the hospital and returned to her beloved homestead cottage to die alone. Her volunteer hospice worker, Glorie, played by Grimsley, is a Harvard MBA recently transplanted to this rural backwater from New York. Glorie is tense, unhappy and guilt-ridden, her only child having been killed in an auto accident when she was driving. As she attempts to care for and comfort the cantankerous Grace, the sophisticated Glorie gains new perspectives on values and life’s highs and lows.

The two opposites are thrown together by circumstance but gradually discover their commonality and grow from the experience. As the two characters bond over shared secrets and private jokes, they inevitably and predictably learn to trust and respect one another’s ways.

Grace and Glorie, written by Tom Ziegler, a native of Chicago, was first presented at The Shenandoah Valley Playwrights Retreat under the title Apple Dreams and later went on to a successful Off-Broadway run starring Estelle Parsons and Lucie Arnaz in 1996.

Directed by Stuart Champeau, Grace and Glorie will be performed July 29 – Aug. 14. Friday and Saturday shows begin at 7:30 pm, and Sunday at 2 pm, at Rogue Theater, 340 Jaycee Ct., Sturgeon Bay. Tickets are $10 for students and $15 for adults. For more information, call 920.818.0816 or visit facebook.com/roguetheater.