Stalag 17
February 17 - 26, 2006
by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski
Based on the personal wartime experiences of the authors, this gutsy play follows the adventures of captured American soldiers imprisoned in a WWII German POW camp, plotting their own “great escape.” But every attempt to break out has been discovered. Who’s ratting to the Germans? Who can be trusted? This tense drama combines both excitement and suspense delivering its thrilling conclusion.
Featuring
- Ari Bavel as McCarthy, Guard
- Johnn Beuscher as Stosh
- Mike Brown as Corporal Schultz
- Steve Castro as Hoffman
- A. J. Hoyt as Geneva Man, SS Captain
- John Lutjen as Horney
- Trevor Martin as Price
- Rick McClellan as Dunbar
- Ron McKeown as Marko
- Sean Murphy as Duke
- Gregory Sheffer as Harry
- Jeff Wheeler as Reed
- Chris Winstone as Herb Gordon
- Justin Zimmerman as Sefton
Production Staff
- Carol Burton - Director
- Carrie Lenahan - Assistant Director
- Betsy Sexton - Stage Manager
- Laura Jacobs - Stage Manager
- Sean Leistico - Set Designer
- Bill Wright - Light Designer
- Shelly Stewart - Sound Designer
- Kathleen Long - Sound Operator
- Jennifer Williams - Costumer
- Kim Melton - Properties
- Justin Zimmerman & Sean Murphy - Fight Choreography
*Stalag 17 is based on real experiences faced by brave Allied soldiers during World War II. To understand more of what they went through during those perilous years, you can see stories of the conditions and life in the POW camps in articles at members.cox.net, www.b24.net, www.aiipowmia.com, and combatvets.net (pdf file).
