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Show fl-k j x- i , ' small recreation office buildina Porter Rockwell Returns ' to be presented at PGHS, sponsored by P.G. Ninth Ward Porter Rockwell Returns," Larry D. Anderson's one-man play on the legendary western lawman, gunfighter, tracker, scout and bodyguard to Joseph Smith and Brigham young, will be performed in the Pleasant Grove High School auditorium on Friday, June 10. The play is sponsored by the Pleasant Grove 9th Ward. Curtain time is 8 p.m. Tickets are $3 and can be obtained by calling Diana Mageno at 785-7105, or may be purchased at the door prior to the performance. Anderson began researching Porter Rockwell m 1985 in connection con-nection with his graduate studies in LDS history at BYU. With the help of LDS and western America history experts, Anderson wrote a one-man play on Rockwell. The play was reviewed for authenticity by Dr. Douglas Alder, past-president of the Utah Historical Association. The play was first performed in early 1987 at Dixie College. Speaking of the play. Alder said. "Everyone should see it." With the assistance and direction of noted writerdirector, James Arlington, the play then came to Salt Lake City and played the summer of 1987 for the Salt Lake Repertory Theatre. The show begins with an ominous jangling of spurs, and the sight of a bearded, long-haired man with a rhest like a barrpl For the next 40 minutes, the audience experiences a man straight out of Ihe weslern frontier. Anderson portravs Rockwell during the Utah war. tracking rustlers, having shootouts with outlaws, as well as during the terrifying years in Missouri, where Rockwell got his name -"Destroying Angel " ,lt's packed with action: it's loud and blunt But in between the lines, it is spiced with paradox, and a touch of bittersweet Anderson says ol his play. "I want to portray Rockwell just as he was - no better, no worse I want to put the audience in his environment, to feel the time I and wonder what they would do if they were in his boots " I |
