Dearly Departed Redux

Well, our revels have ended at Evergreen Cultural Centre and the play has closed.  It has been great fun and a lot of hard work.  It was a very funny play and the best thing about it was that there were lots of interesting characters to play and everyone did his or her best with what they had.  A couple of people only had a couple of scenes, but they made the best of it and created memorable moments on stage.  When I first read the play, I thought it was a very silly piece of fluff, but having worked on it over the last month or so, I realize it did have some really lovely moments in it.  The relationship between the two brothers was very real -- they hated each other in a way, but still wanted to help each other and offer support to each other.   The widow initially wanted to put "Mean and Surly" on her dead husband's gravestone, but realized that their life together had its ups as well as its downs.  Junior's speech about feeling like a man, his pride at being a "businessman", just like his daddy, is quite poignant in these days of economic downturns and high unemployment.  Well, it's over now and like all theatre, is just gone.  Nothing left except the memories.  They will be fond ones.