Des and Sara onstage
Beaumont Community Theatre became our Texas family during the seven years we lived there between Ireland and Utah. I don't have photos of every production, but some of our favorites: Des had been in plays in Ireland before coming to teach at Lamar University. He also helped with stage managing Camelot, Music Man, and other shows. Sara helped with publicity. Des did perform a few times in plays after moving to Cedar City and was in the Utah Shakespeare Festival for one summer. His teaching duties made it hard to continue in theatre, but he continued performing music until Covid sidelined all of us. Some of his favorite roles in Texas: Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady Starbuck in Rainmaker Mr. Lundie in Brigadoon Koko in Mikado (this was at the Orange Theatre, near Beaumont) Priest in Hamlet (he also performed this role in Cedar City at SUU) Ghost in MacBeth Sara's favorite roles were in Oldest Living Graduate playing a snarky small town woman with "big hair" an