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Kindra Steenerson, a part-time instructor in the theater department, directs this production of Talley s Folly, one of a trilogy of plays about the Talley family of Lebanon, Missouri, which includes Wilson s acclaimed Fifth of July. But this show shines moonlight on only two characters: Matt Friedman, a Jewish immigrant accountant from St. Louis, and Sally, the once-promising daughter of the Talley clan wealthy, conservative and Protestant.
Played by UNCW theater students Davis Wood and Meghan McDonald, Matt and Sally meet a year before the play s action. The year is 1944, only a month after the D-Day landings in France. A feeling of hope that things are changing for the better is in the air.