Network - Picnic Theatre Company
Woodlawn & Pope-Leighey House 9000 Richmond Highway, Alexandria, Virginia 22309
Picnic Theatre Company
Network
On Sunday, June 11, join the Picnic Theatre Company in the beautiful Woodlawn garden for a live play performance and light parody of the award-winning 1976 drama Network, a satire of the television news industry. Enjoy cocktails and 1970s music, and hilarious advertisements.
In an America beset by inflation, recession, Watergate and Vietnam, a veteran broadcast anchorman channels the populist rage and becomes a national lightning rod. Ambitious network executives and corporate conglomerates take the commercialization of the news to unsettling extremes in pursuit of profits and ratings, but soon find the message and the consequences spinning out of their control. A bitingly prescient commentary on the rise of mass media and its polarizing effects on politics and American life, Network resonates more than ever today.
Tickets are $18 and benefit Woodlawn & Pope-Leighey House. Outdoor tented seating. Drinks and refreshments available for purchase. Rain or shine.
4:00 PM: Cocktails & refreshments
5:00 PM: Performance
