Allen Theatre & Iola Community Theatre Present: Harvey : Bowlus Calendar

Set in 1944, Harvey, a Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by Mary Chase, is the story of a perfect gentleman, Elwood P. Dowd, and his best friend, Harvey.

Elwood insists on including his friend Harvey in all of his sister Veta's social gatherings. Trouble is, Harvey is an imaginary six-and-a-half-foot-tall rabbit. To avoid future embarassment for her family - and especially for her daughter, Myrtle Mae - Veta decides to have Elwood committed to a sanitarium. At the sanitarium, a frantic Veta explains to the staff that her years of living with Elwood's hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also, and so the doctors mistakenly commit her instead of her mild-mannered brother. The truth comes out, however; Veta is freed, and the search is on for Elwood, who eventually arrives at the sanitarium of his own volition, looking for Harvey. But it seems that Elwood and his invisible companion have had a strange influence on more than one of the doctors. Only at the end does Veta realize that maybe Harvey isn't so bad after all.

Written by
Mary Chase

Directed by
Tricia Stogsdill

Produced through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by Dramatists Play Service.
440 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016, Telephone 212-540-9330
https://www.dramatists.com/

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