Plains Drama Club crack up audiences with "Adam's Eve"

The Plains Drama Club presented their spring play performance, “Adam’s Eve,” to the public last weekend on Friday and Saturday night at the Sanders County Fairgrounds’ Pavilion center.

“Adam’s Eve,” written by Matthew Carlin, is a comedy and love story set in modern times with religious themes threaded throughout the play.  Although all of the characters are adults in the show, and the student actors ranging from freshmen to seniors, were cast for each part exceptionally well by directors Terri Henry and Cathy Emmett. 

“Every play we put on ends up being a lot of fun,” said Henry, who has been the drama club’s director for two years, but involved with the club for about 15 years.  “We have a talented group of kids here.  It’s really neat to see the same group of kids reinvented every time they have to play a different character in each play.”

The play begins when a young sports writer comes home from work to find Eve, a “newborn baby” in a grown woman’s body dressed in Adam’s Vikings football jersey, in his coat closet.  Adam, played by Kenny Griggs, is puzzled by how Eve showed up in his closet one day, but she tells Adam that she was sent by God and “she was placed there to put Adam at ease because she is meant for him.”

The cast is made up of Adam’s friends, girlfriend, a psychiatrist, his uppity mother, and hilarious grandmother, who come to his aid, when he wonders why and how Eve came into his life.  Eve, played by Taylor Boles, makes herself right at home by discovering things on Earth, such as cable TV and cooking. 

However, Adam is still unsure about the whole situation.  His mother, played by Kendall Knight, loves Eve and thinks it’s a wonderful miracle that she was sent just for Adam.  She tells Adam, “Anything is possible! Open your mind to things and it can happen!”  Adam is doubtful, and doesn’t know how to tell his girlfriend Marla, played by Samantha Garrison, that a woman appeared in his closet, and he is supposedly meant to be with her.

The audience of about 100 people were laughing in their seats at the actors well timed one liner jokes and physical comedy, especially when Adam’s spunky grandmother, played by Courtney Roth, hobbled around hitting other characters with her cane.

The Plains Drama Club is still fundraising for their trip to Nebraska this summer for the national competition, where they will perform a serious play called, “Our Diamond,” which was their fall performance.

“It is great to have a successful drama club for kids who don’t play sports, for example,” said Henry. “We practice two hours a day, five days a week for six weeks for each play, so it’s really a tremendous time commitment, just like a sport practice might be.”

“The Plains community is small, but we have a talented group of young actors here, “ said Henry.