The Mountain Theater Alliance opens two American plays this week—Watch on the Rhine (Thursday and Friday July 23 and 24) and Greater Tuna (Saturday, July 25)—at the Pine Mountain Village gazebo. They run in repertory for two weeks with an 8 p.m. curtain for each performance.

The clever Watch on the Rhine begins as a comedy of family ties tested and becomes a thriller of politics turned deadly when a daughter returns home in 1940 with her German husband and children on the brink of WWII. Rhine won acclaim and became a major feature film with Bette Davis.

Greater Tuna shows a hilariously different take on the American family, based in Texas. Mountain favorites Beans Morocco and David Stenstrom take on over twenty hilarious characters—members of a highly dysfunctional family and their neighbers in the second biggest state’s third smallest town—Tuna, Texas.

Showtimes:

Curtain time is 8 p.m.

Watch on the Rhine
July 23, 24, 30 and August 1

Greater Tuna
July 25, 29 and 31

Photo captions:

(l-r) David Stenstrom and Beans Morocco in Greater Tuna

Bill Fair and Stacey Havener rehearse with the cast of actors in Lillian Hellman’s acclaimed Watch on the Rhine.

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