The Great River Shakespeare Festival will feature a panel discussion with local World War II veterans as well as conversation about its 2010 season plays, The Daly News, Othello, and The Comedy of Errors as part of its annual Community Forum this Monday, June 21st at 6:00PM in the Winona State University Performing Arts Center.
Focusing on life and family during WWII, this Monday’s Community Forum features Bud English, who served on a Navy supply ship stationed in the Pacific and now lives in Arcadia, Darol “Lefty” Lee and Charlie Kubicek, both Marines who served in Iwo Jima and now live in Winona, and Francis Losinski, an Army captain who served throughout Europe and now lives in Winona.
“We’re expanding our season this year to include Jonathan Gillard Daly’s original musical about his family’s experience during World War II,” according to Paul Barnes, GRSF Producing Director. “Because of this departure from our usual two plays by Shakespeare production roster, we thought it appropriate to feature The Daly News as the centerpiece of our annual forum, which has become the inagural conversation of each new season in Winona.” Daly will also participate in Monday’s discussion.
The Daly News, a musical adaptation of newsletters compiled by Martin Daly, grandfather of GRSF founding company member, Jonathan Gillard Daly, played a sold-out, one-night only benefit performance in 2009. Written by Gillard Daly with music by Larry Delinger and Gregg Coffin, composer of GRSF’s 2009 production of Love’s Labour’s Lost and 2005’s Much Ado About Nothing, The Daly News chronicles the true story of a family separated by the events of World War II. The production will open Sunday, July 4 and run in repertory with Othello and The Comedy of Errors.
The 2010 season Community Forum will begin at 6:00PM. Admission is FREE and open to the public.
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