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    Mistaken Charity

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    Presented by B. Someday Productions at Walking Fish Theatre

    May 4-May 21, 2011


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    Harriet and Charlotte Shattuck are eighty-seven-year-old twin sisters. They live together in the run-down sharecroppers cabin in which they were born. They have been alone there since their "old woman" died, some thirty years ago. Their parents were poor dirt farmers, but the great-grandfather was a mythical sea captain, whose ship was lost in a storm the night the twins were born. Very little remains from that long ago, seafaring past: a few words and intonations in the women's curious, unique dialect; some pieces of chipped glassware; and an anchor outside the cabin, miles from the sea. Enter Mrs. Simonds, farmer's wife and church woman, with a plan to send the two women to the local "Old Ladies' Home". After two months in the home Harriet can stand no more. She devises an escape plan. In the cover of darkness the twins decoy their beds and sneak out of the home, off the property and tramp the fourteen miles back to their cabin. Weak, frail, and on the lam, they begin their final journey home. Can they really make it fourteen miles, at night, alone, with no food or water? 


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        Walking Fish Theatre

        2509 Frankford Avenue
        Philadelphia, PA 19125

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        Tickets:

        $20 General Admission
        $16 Students and Seniors

        Info Phone: 215-427-9255

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      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        May 4-May 21, 2011

        Times:

        Wednesdays & Thursdays @ 7 pm
        Fridays & Saturdays @ 8 pm
        Saturday matinee @ 2 pm

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