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OF MICE AND MENDirected by: Cyndie Verbeten
Produced by: Danielle Storvik
Assistant Directed by: Lisa Davis
Stage Manager: Kyle Tobeck
Show Dates: 11/8-11/17
Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm
Sunday at 2:00pm
Located at the Mills-Pate Arts Center
7120 Old Nashville Hwy Murfreesboro, TN
Tickets available for purchase at www.bravoboro.theater
Written in 1937 by John Steinbeck, the book follows the experiences of two displaced migrant ranch
workers, George Milton and Lennie Small, as they move from place to place in California during the
Great Depression. The story explores their friendship and struggle to attain the American dream.
Of Mice and Men is one of the most challenged books of the 21st century due to its depiction of violence
and use of profane, racist language. This work is a commentary on the social and economic effects of the
Great Depression with recurring themes, including the dissolution of the American dream, isolation and
loneliness, injustice, and the cruelty of man.
It is an allusion to Scottish poet Robert Burns’ 1785 poem “To a Mouse”, in which a farmer unwittingly
and regrettably kills a mouse while plowing.
An excerpt:
“But Mouse, you are not alone,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best-laid schemes of mice and men Go oft awry, And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!”
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Mills-Pate Arts Center, 7120 Old Nashville Highway,Murfreesboro,TN,United States
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