Spitfire Grill a Success
Jason Salts
Issue date: 3/1/10 Section: Opinion
The Volunteer State Community College premiered its latest production "Spitfire Grill" last Thursday to a modest audience size of 50+ purveyors. This was after it was almost cancelled due to the main character falling ill with bronchitis and not being able to sing.
The performance which had a somewhat shaky start, understandably, nonetheless took off and only got better as the play progressed. With the talented group of actors and singers presented a wonderful job wrought with emotion. The audience seemed entranced as they fell willing victim to the emotions in the story.
This play is an adaptation of a movie that premiered at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, the tale of a woman recently released from prison looking to start anew in a random town in America with naught but the clothes on her back and a hope for a better tomorrow.
She arrives in town in the middle of the night and already the gossip mill is running with Effey singing she arrived with a biker gang. She starts work the next morning, and not to a very good start, she quarrels with all the customers.
But as time progresses she starts to fit in more and more as she finds her niche at the grill. But then disaster strikes when Hannah falls and hurt s her leg, forcing her to let Percy to run the Grill for a while, with Shelby to come and help.
Things progress and you learn of Eli, Hannah's lost son. How the town has died since he was lost in the war. The play progresses without letting you go until the finale with a number sung by all the cast as all the loose ends are tied up and it comes to a rousing happy end with the audience bursting into applause as the cast takes a bow.
This was a play I recommend you see if ever it is put on here again, it was well done to almost have been cancelled due to illness in the cast. So a job well done the cast of the "Spitfire Grill."
The performance which had a somewhat shaky start, understandably, nonetheless took off and only got better as the play progressed. With the talented group of actors and singers presented a wonderful job wrought with emotion. The audience seemed entranced as they fell willing victim to the emotions in the story.
This play is an adaptation of a movie that premiered at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, the tale of a woman recently released from prison looking to start anew in a random town in America with naught but the clothes on her back and a hope for a better tomorrow.
She arrives in town in the middle of the night and already the gossip mill is running with Effey singing she arrived with a biker gang. She starts work the next morning, and not to a very good start, she quarrels with all the customers.
But as time progresses she starts to fit in more and more as she finds her niche at the grill. But then disaster strikes when Hannah falls and hurt s her leg, forcing her to let Percy to run the Grill for a while, with Shelby to come and help.
Things progress and you learn of Eli, Hannah's lost son. How the town has died since he was lost in the war. The play progresses without letting you go until the finale with a number sung by all the cast as all the loose ends are tied up and it comes to a rousing happy end with the audience bursting into applause as the cast takes a bow.
This was a play I recommend you see if ever it is put on here again, it was well done to almost have been cancelled due to illness in the cast. So a job well done the cast of the "Spitfire Grill."