Annie Marsh will reprise her role as Patsy Cline in Opera House’s musical revue, “Always … Patsy Cline.” (Port City Daily/Courtesy photo)
WILMINGTON — For months Big Dawg Productions’ artistic director, Steve Vernon, has been preparing the local theater company’s return to the stage since Covid-19 shuttered its Cape Fear Playhouse home in March 2020. Though Big Dawg did three radio dramas throughout the pandemic, “The Lifespan of a Fact” will be the company’s first in-person show in more than a year.
“I began looking at plays that were possible ‘openers’ for a return to the stage,” Vernon wrote to Port City Daily, “something that could be done with a small cast that reflected the uncertainty and anxiety of the past year, and yet still be entertaining and even comedic, and that framed larger issues into more digestible stories.”