Cheyenne Little Theatre Players production of A Walk in the Woods by Lee Blessing won the regional American Association of Community Theatre’s (AACT) festival competition Sunday, April 22 held here in Cheyenne. CLTP’s production of A Walk in the Woods will move on to national competition at the National AACT Festival to be held in Charlotte, NC June 18-24, 2007.
This will mark the second time in Cheyenne Little Theatre Players 78 year history that it has been invited to perform at AACT’s National competition. In 1993 CLTP took a production of Terra Nova to national competition and won second place.
Directed by Keith Thomson, A Walk in the Woods features Dave Hall and Jeff Tish in the roles of John Honeyman and Andrey Botvinnik. Stage Manager is Rich Hammond.
This production was also a showcase winner at the Rocky Mountain Theatre Festival held earlier this year at Western State College in Gunnison CO. “This is a wonderful opportunity for our theatre and our community,” said Harry Woods, Managing Director of Cheyenne Little Theatre Players.
A Walk in the Woods is an important, brilliantly executed and strikingly original play, which brings deep perception and unexpected humor to its probing examination of the superpower negotiations on nuclear disarmament. Written in the 1980’s during the Cold War, its message is as timely today as it was during that difficult era of US Soviet relations.
