Coal Creek Community Theater presents
That Championship Season
by Jason Miller
Directed by Jim Kimbrough
Following their annual custom, five men – a high-school basketball coach, now retired, and four members of the team that he guided to the state championship twenty years earlier – meet for a reunion. The occasion begins in a lighthearted mood but gradually, as the pathos and desperation of their present lives are exposed and illuminated, the play takes on a rich power of rare dimension.
One former player is now the inept mayor of the town and facing a strong challenge for re-election. Another, the frustrated principal of the local high school, is his ambitious campaign manager. A third, now a successful (and destructive) businessman, is wavering in his financial support of the mayor, while the fourth is a witty but despairing alcoholic. As the evening progresses, all that these men were – and have become – is revealed and examined with biting humor and saving compassion.
Run Time - 2 hours and one 15-minute intermission
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