It's the city girl facing the country boy in "The Urban-Rural Divorce," a March 18 program in Greeley exploring the complex relationship between the urban and rural West.
The Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø is presenting the fun and creative program, casting the many difficult issues facing the urban and rural West in human terms.
The three-hour mock divorce hearing will begin at 1 p.m. at Our Savior's Lutheran Church, 1800 21st St. The event is free and open to the public.
The program stars Jamie Sudler, assistant disciplinary counsel for the Colorado Supreme Court, as Sandy Greenhills West who is filing for divorce from his wife, Urbana Asphalt West, played by CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø history Professor Patricia Limerick.
Sandy cites irreconcilable differences ranging from "failure to support" to "infidelity through flirting with foreign markets." Testimony will come from the couple's dysfunctional child, Suburbia West, as well as a cast of witnesses from the local community.
Community guest stars in the program include:
o Dave Carter, president of the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, as a witness for Sandy.
o James Conley, director of advanced sales at Massachusetts Mutual Life, as the judge.
o Pastor Bruce Johnson at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Denver as the bailiff.
o Pastor Luther Johnson, an inner-city Lutheran minister in Denver, as a witness for Urbana.
o Pastor Sally Ponfick of Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Anton, Colo., as a witness for Sandy.
o Pastor Penni Walsh at Epiphany Lutheran Church in Denver as a witness for Urbana.
The show will be the 21st performance of the Urban-Rural Divorce, which has been taken on the road to Western cities and towns including Rock Springs, Wyo., Boise, Idaho, and Gunnison, Colo.
The event is sponsored by the Center of the American West and Common Ground: The Urban/Rural Connection.
For more information, call Pastor Ponfick at (303) 604-1422.