Patrons usually could count on at least one big performance every summer, but productions have been limited for about six years. Her theater group is called The Changelings.Īpple Shed shows date to the 1979, when the Mallin family donated the former processing facility and warehouse to Raintree for use as a cultural center. When I discovered that there was a theater sitting waiting for me, it was game on.”įournier got the OK from the Raintree board to move forward.
We saw a community that was begging for entertainment and an excuse to come together. “We put it on our calendar and went,” Fournier said. “We have so many stories to tell, so many pots to stir.”įournier and her husband, Ricky, moved to Clarksville from the Dallas-Fort Worth area to escape what she calls “the concrete jungle.” Ricky was searching online and found a restored church in which they now live.Ī visit to the Raintree Arts Council’s annual Encore performance last spring convinced the Fourniers they had made the right decision. “There is nothing more exciting to me than to see the arts blossom,” Fournier said. The Apple Shed is on Highway 79 at the south edge of Clarksville. The actress and director hopes to revive the performance center’s thespian tradition, and she’s getting things going with a production of “The Last Romance.” The comedy centers on a couple who falls in love at a dog park, and will be staged Nov.
One look is all it took for Mary Lang Fournier to fall in love with Clarksville and the Apple Shed Theatre. Actress Reinvigorates Clarksville Theater
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