September 23rd silent auction begins at 7:00 PM and the play is at 8:00 PM, First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, 4700 Grover Ave.

TCADP will sponsor a play as a fund raising event. The play is called “Third”. Set at a small New England college, “Third” begins in 2003, just as President George W. Bush launches the invasion of Iraq. Laurie Jameson, 54, a very popular and stridently feminist English professor, meets an intelligent jock who sparks her ire when he tells her of his desire to be a sports agent. He annoys her more when he tells her that his name is Woodson Bull III – his friends call him Third – named after his father and grandfather, who attended the college when it was for men only, he says.

When “Third” turns in a paper about “King Lear”, she believes it is the work of an advanced scholar, not a wrestler; she accuses him of plagiarism and puts the matter before the college’s Committee of Academic Standards. From there the audience is taken on a journey through the midlife crisis of a woman reckoning with a two-decade old marriage, an ailing parent, hot flashes, children who have suddenly become adults, a close friend battling cancer and angrily rebuffing her attempts to be more involved, and political beliefs that have somehow turned into a crusade against her student. The playwright is Wendy Wasserstein, who also wrote “The Heidi Chronicles”.

In addition to the play we also will hold a silent auction with such items as restaurant gift cards, jewelry, art objects, wine & cheese baskets and more. The play will be performed at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, 4700 Grover Ave. The silent auction begins at 7:00 PM and the play is at 8:00 PM. Tickets ($20) may be purchased at the door or in advance by contacting me (bobvans@austin.rr.com) or the TCADP office at 512-441-1808. Please come out and support this activity for the organization. All proceeds from the evening benefit TCADP.