The Broadway Players of Fairfield High School will take the stage this weekend for three performances of “Letters from the Titanic,” a play centered on a modern family’s discovery of what may be authentic correspondence from passengers aboard the ill-fated ocean liner.
Performances are scheduled for Friday, Oct. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 31 at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 1 at 2 p.m. in the Edgeton, Mitcheltree, Slechta Auditorium at Fairfield High School. The production is appropriate for general audiences. Tickets are $6 at the door or free with a Fairfield Community School District Activity Pass. Seating is general admission, and doors open 30 minutes before each show.
The play follows Denise D’Onofrio, a cash-strapped New York City realtor who discovers a collection of old letters tucked inside an oilskin bag marked RMS Titanic. What she and her husband Richie initially assume to be junk or theatrical props may turn out to be preserved messages written by the ship’s passengers — setting off a journey that forces Denise to weigh the financial relief the letters could bring her family against the moral question of returning them to the descendants of those who wrote them.
The full cast is as follows:
Thisbe Adkins (Lisa Simms; Girl 1)
Aidric Blomme (Jacob; Jack Williamson; NYU Student)
Logan Carroll (Greg; Benjamin Hart)
Brenna Golden (Jamie Macnamara; James Smith; NYU Student)
Jami Hames (Ellen Andrews; NYU Student)
Bella Jaeger (Denise D’Onofrio)
Divya Keith (Kathleen Dillon; Dr. Michelle Breckenridge)
Jack Lynch (Ramon Artagaveytia; Samuel; TV Anchor; NYU Student)
Taryn Roemen (Professor Donna Hartsfield; Interviewer)
Peyton Sirdoreus (Dr. Samantha Alton; Captain of Mackay-Bennett; NYU Student)
Madalyn Smithburg (Professor Gina Calabrese)
Braezyn Stutzman (Rita; Jamie; Titanic Telegraph Operator; 3rd Class Roommate)
Anshal Waychal (Henry March; Californian Telegraph Operator; Waitress; 3rd Class Roommate; NYU Student)
Miracle Weathers (Eva Hart; William; Jeremiah Burke; NYU Student)
Avery Wendland (Kim; Esther Hart; NYU Student)
Lelan Blomme (Richie D’Onofrio)
Noel Wotherspoon serves as artistic and technical director. Betsie Wotherspoon is costume mistress and assistant to the director. Student crew members include Bidhi Dangol, Tessa Holdeman and Dominick Xayavong.
“Letters from the Titanic” is written by David Abbinanti and presented with permission from DramaLlama.
