Robert Anglund to present new comedy on June 30
BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER

Photo HANS FARHMAYER Robert Anglund returns to the TWN stage this Monday.

A talking corpse? Hardly a scary story, it is the comedic theme of stage veteran Robert Anglund's latest work that he will read with others at a Theatre Workshop of Nantucket performance on Monday, June 30 at 6 p.m. at the Methodist Church.

"Third Time Around, Still in the Box" is Anglund's 11th summer reading of his original plays. The story revolves around the death of a former Hollywood film star whose body is shipped to the Campbell Funeral Parlor in New York City. Everyone she has known in her career comes to pay homage, and when they do, she sits up in her casket and has a little discussion with each one about their friendship.

Anglund portrays the fussy funeral director. Well-known actress Susan Burns is the deceased.

"She's fun to write for," said Anglund.

Island puppeteer Joe Zito plays a tourist, who wanders into the parlor to see who is displayed, and Anglund's grandson, Thaddeus Harvey, portrays the funeral director's son, who has been caught in an affair with a married woman and seeks safe shelter at his father's business.

Anglund began his career during the Great Depression when he tap danced for change on The Delta Queen riverboat in Mississippi at the age of 10. He went on to act in theater with Geraldine Paige, Patsy Kelly, Sylvia Sidney, Gertrude Berg, Margaret O'Brien and many others. He also co-produced "No, No, Nannette," "Irene," "Good News" and "Sugar Babies" with Harry Rigby. Anglund's first or iginal play, "Sticky Wicket," starred Jean Stapleton, who was Archie Bunker's wife on the TV hit "All in the Family."

Anglund has vacationed on the island since 1966 with his family, wife Joan Walsh Anglund, a children's book author and illustrator, daughter Joy Harvey, an artist, his grandchildren Emily, a teacher and Thaddeus, a student at Columbia University and his son-in-law, Seth Harvey. I