Harvey
April 18 - May 9, 2010
By: Mary Chase
Directed by: Diana Leblanc
Presented by Delmar Freight Forwarders & Customs Brokers
Produced by special arrangement with Don Gregory
Harvey is the story of mild-mannered Elwood P. Dowd and his best friend, an invisible six-foot, three-and-one-half-inch rabbit named Harvey. Elwood and his pal are well-known and loved but when Elwood introduces his oversized rabbit to guests at a society party, his status-obsessed sister Veta is mortified. To spare her family further embarrassment Veta decides to commit her brother to a sanitarium, but upon arrival at the hospital, the doctors institutionalize her instead. Once the gaffe is rectified, the search is on for Elwood. When he is finally in custody the absurd behaviour of the hospital staff raises the age-old question of who is truly insane and dangerous: carefree dreamers like Elwood or the medical practitioners who ‘treat’ them.
Harvey is the story of mild-mannered Elwood P. Dowd and his best friend, an invisible six-foot, three-and-one-half-inch rabbit named Harvey. Elwood and his pal are well-known and loved but when Elwood introduces his oversized rabbit to guests at a society party, his status-obsessed sister Veta is mortified. To spare her family further embarrassment Veta decides to commit her brother to a sanitarium, but upon arrival at the hospital, the doctors institutionalize her instead. Once the gaffe is rectified, the search is on for Elwood. When he is finally in custody the absurd behaviour of the hospital staff raises the age-old question of who is truly insane and dangerous: carefree dreamers like Elwood or the medical practitioners who ‘treat’ them.
