Outside performances of “What I Did Last Summer” by Theatre Charlotte

Missing live theatre? 

We’re about to experience Charlotte’s first try at outdoor live theatre since the start of the pandemic. it will be a little bit different…

Theatre Charlotte, 501 Queens Road, is presenting A.R. Gurney’s play, “What I Did Last Summer,” outside of the theatre, in the parking lot, with seats arranged in socially distant groupings. 

Masks are required.

Tickets are general admission. Once capacity for a performance is reached, staff will assign seats to allow for recommended distancing between groups.

The play will run Thursday through Sunday on September 24th to 27th, and October 1st to 4th, at 6 p.m. each evening.

Tickets are $17.50 for adults and $15 for students, and can be purchased here.

What I Did Last Summer is a warm-hearted, gently humorous memory play set in a well-to-do vacation colony on the shores of Lake Erie during the final stages of World War II.

This coming of age story centers around 14-year-old Charlie, a kind but rebellious boy who struggles with trying to be his own person yet trying to please his mother and his family. Before going off to boarding school, he takes a job as a handyman for iconoclastic, bohemian art teacher Anna Trumbull.

As a result, Charlie is exposed to Anna’s radical perspectives about life and love, putting him at odds with his conservative mother. 

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