The Dining Room

Tickets: 7$ General Admission (Tickets available at the door 45 minutes before curtain.)

Please call (734) 401-4644 for more information or email glatzk@salineschools.org

What is The Dining Room?

The play is set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household, the place where the family assembled daily for breakfast and dinner and for any and all special occasions. The action is comprised of a mosaic of interrelated scenes—some funny, some touching, some rueful—which, taken together, create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class WASP. The actors change roles, personalities and ages with virtuoso skill as they portray a wide variety of characters, from little boys to stern grandfathers, and from giggling teenage girls to Irish housemaids. Each vignette introduces a new set of people and events; a father lectures his son on grammar and politics; a boy returns from boarding school to discover his mother's infidelity; a senile grandmother doesn't recognize her own sons at Christmas dinner; a daughter, her marriage a shambles, pleads futilely to return home, etc. Dovetailing swiftly and smoothly, the varied scenes coalesce, ultimately, into a theatrical experience of exceptional range, compassionate humor and abundant humanity.

A brilliantly conceived and richly humorous theatrical tour de force (and Off-Broadway success) in which six (or more) performers portray a wide array of diverse characters as they delineate the dying lifestyle of wealthy WASPdom, and the now neglected room which was once a vital center of family life.

"…hilarious and touching…as comic sketch crazily succeeds comic sketch a whole pattern of  

American life emerges…" —NY Post.   

"THE DINING ROOM serves a banquet of theatrical riches." —NY Daily News.

"…a thoughtful and superbly written comedy…" —Variety. 

"…often funny and rueful and, by the end, very moving." —NY Times.

        (Information from Samuelfrench.com)

Who is a part of The Dining Room at Saline High School?

The cast includes… Ethan Baker, Dominic Bourassa, Elizabeth Crawford, Claudia Curcione, Cristina Gonzalez, Stefania Gonzalez, John Harrell, Ella Marsh, Lexi Morris, Joseph Pryor, Rinn Ramcke, Kimberly Schamberger, Kylee Smith, Elizabeth Solis, Ayla Tighe, Collin Wagner, Jared Webb, Jake White, Collin Williams, and. The production is directed by Kristen Glatz and the student directors are Alyssa Dawson and Catherine Wei.

Location Information:

Saline High School, Ellen A. Ewing Center for the Performing Arts

1300 Campus Parkway, Saline, MI 48176