This March, Dos Pueblos High School is proud to present Harvey, the Pulitzer Prize winning comedy about a man and his friendship with an invisible six-and-a-half-foot rabbit named Harvey. Featuring a talented cast of 12, the production takes a lighthearted look at sanity and reality.
DP theater veteran, senior Tim Smith, takes on the lead role of Elwood P. Dowd, best friend of the invisible title character (or should we see, title rabbit). Elwood's antics with Harvey are more then his social climbing sister Veta (senior Erika Bolden) and her bratty daughter Myrtle Mae (junior Kit Steinkellner) can handle, and so they decide to commit Elwood to a sanitarium, in hopes of returning to the rabbit-less life they once knew. Problems arise, however, when Veta herself is mistakenly assumed to be 'the crazy one' when she explains to doctors that years of living with Elwood's hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also! The doctors commit Veta instead of Elwood, but when the truth comes out, the search is on for Elwood and his invisible friend. Throughout the course of the play, the lines between fantasy and reality, sanity and lunacy, are blurred, even broken, until it finally appears that Elwood's delusion might not be a delusion after all.
The show also features seniors Adam Nelson, Stuart Zinke, Alexander Georgakis, and Dane Svenningson, and juniors Sammy Peter and Laura Bolton. Directed by department head Clarke Sayre, the show runs March 5-8 in the Dos Pueblos Charger Theatre.