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Grace Higgins
  • international business
  • Geneva, IL

Grace Higgins of Geneva, Illinois, stars in Olivet's student production of 'Outside Mullingar'

2017 Mar 28

Grace Higgins, a resident of Geneva, Illinois, stars as Rosemary in "Outside Mullingar," the 2017 spring play at Olivet Nazarene University. Higgins is a sophomore majoring in international business at Olivet.

Set in rural Ireland, this play is the story of two families whose farms border one another. Through the years there has been an ongoing dispute regarding a certain section of the land. But what happens when the heir-apparent son is attracted to the heir-apparent young lady? It is a sweet, quirky love story which played Broadway in 2014. The New York Times called John Patrick Shanely's work "a lighter, slighter play, a softhearted comedy freckled with dark reflections on the unsatisfactory nature of life and the thorns of love."

Show times for Olivet's production are: Thursday, March 30, 2017, 7 p.m.; Friday, March 31, 7 p.m.; Saturday, April 1, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., Kresge Auditorium in Larsen Fine Arts Center on Olivet's main campus in Bourbonnais, Illinois. Tickets are $8 for general admission, with 100 student discount tickets available. Purchase tickets online at olivet.edu/tickets or call 815-928-5543.