Fort Peck wraps up summer season with “Run For Your Wife”
(Wisconsin), and Pam Veis (Havre) star
in “Run for Your Wife.”
(Photograph by Image Photography)
Thinking about a road trip this Labor Day weekend? Why not pay a visit to the northeastern corner of Montana, where Fort Peck Summer Theatre is staging its final show of the season.
“Run For Your Wife” plays at 8 p.m. Sept. 3-5 in the historic theatre, built in 1934 by the Army Corps of Engineers, and resembling a Swiss-style chalet.
Ray Cooney’s script, performed under the direction of Stephen Moore, offers a laugh-out-loud take on the life of John Smith, a London taxi driver who spends his days, between fares, keeping house with two women in separate parts of London, each believing they are the center of John’s universe.
John is able to keep his wives apart and his life together, until a failed attempt to stop a mugging, lands John in the hospital,… Read more
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