written by Mary Chase
directed by Eric Lindblad
performed May 10-12, 2001
When Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend Harvey, a
six and a half foot rabbit, to guests at a dinner party, his sister, Veta,
has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She
decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter,
Myrtle Mae, and their family from future embarrassment. Problems arise,
however, when Veta herself is mistakenly assumed to be on the fringe of
lunacy when she explains to doctors that years of living with Elwood's
hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also! The doctors commit Veta
instead of Elwood, but when the truth comes out, the search is on for
Elwood and his invisible companion. When he shows up at the sanitarium
looking for his lost friend Harvey it seems that the mild-mannered
Elwood's delusion has had a strange influence on more than one of the
doctors. Only at the end does Veta realize that maybe Harvey isn't so bad
after all.
