Tea and Dessert Buffet with The Prime Minister
An Athens Chautauqua Society Fundraiser
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You can purchase tickets ($50/person) using the link above or by mailing a check. Space is limited so please purchase your tickets ASAP!
IF PAYING BY CHECK
Write your check ($50/person) payable to Athens Chautauqua Society and send to:
Winston Churchill Oct 15 Event
Athens Chautauqua Society
P.O. Box 230
Watkinsville, GA 30677
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About the Performance
Winston Churchill: Through the Storm, written and performed by Bruce Collier, takes place in the evening of July 23, 1945. The setting is Potsdam, Germany, site of a summit conference of the victorious Allies following the defeat of Nazi Germany. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has just hosted a banquet for U.S. President Harry Truman and Soviet Generalissimo Josef Stalin. He is about to return to England to learn the results of a parliamentary election which will determine whether or not he will return to the conference as Britain’s war leader and help plan both the defeat of Japan and the balance of power in the post-war world. Over brandy and cigars, he reminisces about his personal and public life, the war, and the possible future.
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About the Artist
Mr. Bruce Collier, the starring attraction of the Three Palaces at Yalta’s live performance at the Classic Center’s October 15 event, will be flying solo, playing all three leads—Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D. Roosevelt—in this historic reenactment at the end of World War II against the backdrop of the Crimea Sea.
He hails from Dayton, OH, where he practiced law as a public defender. Bruce has acted professionally in Ohio, at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and in New York, where his original play, Tarts, was produced at the Courtyard Playhouse in Greenwich Village. Presently a resident of DeFuniak Springs in the Florida Panhandle, Bruce has acted at The Seaside Repertory Theater and the Emerald Coast Theatre Company, where his Through the Storm premiered.
He is also developing an international clientele as a voiceover artist and has voiced Franklin D. Roosevelt in a short documentary for the FDR Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, NY. Bruce has performed as Churchill at the Florida Chautauqua Assembly in two previous seasons. He has also written a one-man, three-character play, Three Palaces at Yalta, in which he portrays Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, which premiered in January of 2021 as part of the Emerald Coast Theatre Company’s Storyteller Series.
Bruce is also Editor of the DeFuniak Springs Herald - Beach Breeze, a weekly newspaper that has been published continuously in Walton County, FL since 1888.
Please call 706-431-5497 if you have any questions.