Picnic Theater Company performs "The Manchurian Candidate"

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Woodlawn & Pope-Leighey

Picnic Theater Comany presents "The Manchurian Candidate"

The Picnic Theater Company is returning to the Woodlawn garden again this June! On Wednesday June 15, 2022, join us for a presentation of “The Manchurian Candidate”!

The Manchurian Candidate is a neo-noir, psychological thriller about the infiltration of the American political system by Russian agents during the Cold War.

Released in 1962 at the height of US-Soviet tensions during the Cuban Missile crisis, it is described as “a classic bland of satire and political thriller that was uncomfortably prescient in its own time, and remains distressingly relevant today.”

In this stage adaptation, a decorated U.S. Army sergeant returns from the Korean War to the frenzy of the McCarthy era in Washington DC, suffused with witch-hunting and anti-Communist paranoia, as counterintelligence agents seeks to unravel an international conspiracy aimed at the heart of American democracy.

The site will open for cocktails at 6PM for wine, beer, and snacks available to buy.

Feel free to bring your own picnic dinner to enjoy.

No outside alcohol allowed.

The performance will begin at 7 PM in the large event tent!

Tickets are $18 to benefit Woodlawn and Pope Leighey educational programs.