Last weekend for “Quilters” at Birmingham Festival Theatre

Much local talent and a great deal of thought and energy went into the production of “Quilters,” a piece of musical theatre intended to evoke the fabric of frontier life as experienced by women of all ages. The 1982 drama written by Barbara Damashek and Molly Newman takes the form of a series of tableaux or “pieces” of a quilt, each tableaux or scene depicting a woman’s life experience in terms of fabric and thematizing a historical moment or problem in compelling song. The piece is directed by Sandra Taylor with Carole Armistead as Sarah and the six daughters played by Gaines Marsh Creager, Holly Croney Dikeman, Nancy Malone, Emily McLeod, Cari Gisler Oliver and Martha S. Summey. It’s hard to believe so much life and history could be packed into the pieces of a quilt. Come see it before the curtain goes down on this show Saturday, November 19!