This full-length, one-man drama by Rick Plummer, celebrates beloved WWII correspondent Ernie Pyle and the GIs for whom he spent his life in loving sacrifice. 
Ernie Pyle was America’s favorite newspaperman during the war. Syndicated in over 200 dailies and 300 weeklies, this Pulitzer Prize winning journalist served as a link between men at the front and their loved ones back home. His articles were a folksy style much like a personal letter to a friend.
Following the entry of the U.S. into World War II, Pyle became a war correspondent, applying his intimate style to the war. Instead of the movements of armies or the activites of generals, Pyle wrote from the perspective of the common soldier, an approach that won him not only further popularity but also the Pulitzer Prize. He did not glorify war, but rather the simple heroism of the American GI who fought and was prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice. His style was a journalistic, unadorned, rugged way of writing, more so than almost any other writer of his time or since.
Among his most widely read and reprinted columns is “The Death of Captain Waskow.” His wartime writings are preserved in four books: Ernie Pyle in England, Here is Your War, Brave Men, and Last Chapter.
This gritty production captures the horrors of war and celebrates their sacrifice and our freedoms. The play takes the audience just behind the front lines in France, to a ship at sea, to Sicily, and to Italy, Anzio, Normandy, Cherbourg and the liberation of Paris.
Rick Plummer has directed over 150 productions and has played many roles in a thirty year career as a professional actor, director, and theater educator. Dr. Plummer manages the Theater and Performing Arts program at West Shore Community College.
7:30 p.m.  Main Stage. Tickets: $10.
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