Dark of the Moon (Friday 5/14/27, 7:00 p.m.)

Intermediate Theatre performs a tale set in the Smoky Mountains that tells of the love between "witch boy" John and the mortal Barbara Allen The award-winning intermediate high school theatre students of Arcadia Stage will present Dark of the Moon. This perennial favorite is based on the haunting folk ballad of "Barbara Allen." Employing imaginative settings in the Smoky Mountains, this play recounts the story of John, a strange "witch boy" who, upon first beholding the beautiful mortal Barbara Allen, immediately falls in love. He is given human form to woo and marry her on the condition that she remain true to him. The marriage gives birth to a witch child whom the townspeople destroy in a superstitious frenzy. During a religious revival, will Barbara betray John, thus breaking their spell of love? Will their love survive the ultimae test and can they ever reunite?