The Family Community Theatre will present Life with Mother Superior April 3rd through the 6th. Show times are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 P.M. and Sunday at 3:00 P.M.

This coming-of-age comedy follows the lives of two young girls attending boarding school at St. Mark’s Academy in the 1930s and avoiding the strong arm of the Mother Superior. The script is funny and touching, and the characters run the gamut from high-spirited teen lass to severely pious nun.

The action begins with the arrival several  new students at St. Mark’s Academy, a strict Catholic school for girls. Determined to cause trouble, the girls begin by giving false names for themselves, which quickly brings them into their first confrontation with the seemingly formidable Mother Superior. Thereafter one zany misdeed follows another. But even as the action grows ever more lively, so does an awareness of the heart-warming humanity of the girls, the sisters-and the Mother Superior. In the end there are lessons to be learned along with the fun, and they are seasoned with laughter and filled with the good spirits of young girls enjoying life to the fullest.

The 1966 film The Trouble with Angels starring Rosalind Russell and Hayley Mills was an adaptation of the original novel by Jane Trahey. The play was written by Trahey and Anna Helen Reuter.

Life with Mother Superior is directed by Steve Wilson and features Betsy Geddes as “Mother Superior,” Jocelyn Brady as “Mary Clancey” and Whitney White as “Jane Moore.”

Advance tickets are available at: Bookends Bookstore, Sarah’s Catholic Bookstore, Johnson Music Center and Hayes Sight & Sound.  Also available on-line at www.familycommunitytheatre.com or 1 hour prior to the show at the Flag Theatre.  For more information please call the theatre at 620-662-7469.

The Family Community Theatre is located at the Flag Theatre, 310 North Main, Hutchinson.