Wabash College: Theater The Runner Stumbles Crawfordsville, Indiana

Theater

Curriculum

Faculty & Staff

History

Productions

- Pseudolus

- American Buffalo

- Agamemnon

- Much Ado About Nothing

- R.U.R.

- A Moon for the
Misbegotten

- The Tempest

- The Bogus Bride

- Aurelie's Waltz

- Talley's Folly

- The Misanthrope
(Moliere)

- The Mandrake

- A Doll's House

- The Real Inspector
Hound

- Galileo

- The Physicists

- The Runner Stumbles

- Baby Grand

- Twelfth Night

- Antigone

- A Streetcar Named
Desire

- The Long Voyage Home

- Indians

- The Good Woman of
Setzuan

- True West

- Eden Creek

- The School for Wives

- Elbow Rooms

- Mrs Warren's Profession

- Fortune and Men's Eyes

- Loot

- Runaways

- Tom Jones

- Waiting for Godot

- A Half-Remembered
Dream: Narcissa
Whitman's Story

- The Foreigner

- Julius Caesar

- Bus Stop

- Dapple Gray

- Holding Talks

- Of Mice and Men

- Marat/Sade

- Biloxi Blues

- Oedipus Rex

- Accidental Death of an
Anarchist

- Breaking the Code

- Greater Tuna

- Inherit the Wind

- Orphans

- The Day Room

- Voice of the Prairie

- The Merchant of Venice

- El Salvador

- The Battle of
Shallowford

- Tartuffe

- Miss Evers' Boys

- As You Like It

- Ah Wilderness!

- Glengarry Glen Ross

- Scratch

- Angels in America+
Part One: Millennium
Approaches

- The Visit

- Lysistrata

- A View from the Bridge

- Suburbia

- Charley's Aunt

- The Grapes of Wrath

- The Notebook of Trigorin

- The Boys Next Door

- Gross Indecency

- Twelve Angry Men

- Othello

- One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest

- Deadfish Idaho

- Mister Roberts

- Equus

- The Complete Works of
William Shakespeare
(Abridged)

- The Time of Your Life

- The Newton Projects

- American Buffalo

- Oedipus in America

- The Comedy of Errors

- The Man Who Came to
Dinner

- The Illusion

- The Lord of the Flies

- 1776

- The Vaudevilles of
Chekhov

- This Is Our Youth

- The Andersonville Trial

- The Vietnamization of
New Jersey

- Churchill at Eight

- The Braggart Soldier

- The Elephant Man

- Side Man

- Two Gentlemen of
Verona

- Never the Sinner

- Glengarry Glen Ross

- A Flea in Her Ear

Facilities

Research

The Runner Stumbles

November 14–17, 1984
A play by Milan Stitt

Production Staff
Director: James Fisher
Scenic and Light Designer: Brian Jones '82
Costume Designer: Laura Conners
Stage Manager: Abbott Smith '85
Asst. Stage Manager/Props: David Schulz '88
Student Assistants: Chris Luce, Jim Kurtz '85, Jon McGovern '87, Brian Stergar '86

Cast List
Father Brian Rivard: Michael Abbott '85
Amos: Abbott Smith '85
Erna Prindle: Linda Stover
Toby Felker: Greg Hockemeyer '85
Sister Rita: Dana Warner Fisher
Mrs. Shandig: Sue Meek Ford
Prosecutor: Michael Shaw '87
Monsignor Nicholson: Adam Crowe '85
Louise: Jennifer Ostermeier

Production Assistance
Sound: Kyle Carr '85
Assistant Props Master: Matt Brown '88
Deck Electrician: Chris Luce
Graphics: Laura Conners

A strange set of circumstances caused the brilliant Father Rivard to be banished to the small town of Solon, Michigan in 1911, to administer a poor and sparsely settled rural parish. Here the ebullient and sensitive Sister Rita received an assignment and subsequently, through another twist of fate, moves into the parish house with the priest and his housekeeper. The interaction of their lives and especially the development of a deep relationship between the priest and the nun reaches a climax with the shocking murder of Sister Rita. The play, however, is not so much of a murder mystery as a meditation of the nature of God and the world and the way people perceive their relationship to both.

This page is part of an ongoing project to document the history of the theatre productions performed at Wabash College. If you have information not included on this page, please contact the Theater Department or Professor Dwight Watson (watsond@wabash.edu).

Poster

November 14–17, 1984