BRADY TWP — Kevin Lukacs will bring one of his own creations to life at the Old Stone House starting this weekend.

Lukacs is a senior at Slippery Rock University majoring in history with a minor in international affairs. He has combined his passion for acting, writing and history into a historical presentation, “The Stone House Play.”

“Set in Butler County in 1836, this comedy tells the story of American soldier Jack returning home from service in Florida,” Lukacs said.

“Jack makes a new friend in the traveling English gentleman, Sir Basil, and the two attend a mysterious show that evening.”

Lukacs’ plot is fraught with star crossed romance, hilarity and danger to make for an interesting evening of theater.

This is not Lukacs first show. In the spring, two short plays he wrote were performed at SRU in their Brave New Plays festival. One was called “The Sun Also Sets,” a story about expatriates in Paris. The other was “Hot Jazz and Cold Blood,” a noir detective story.

This concept of staging a play at the Old Stone House was conceived as part of a Stone House Center for Public Humanities effort at SRU to expand the programs at the historic site, which SRU owns and operates.

“The idea was originally to do a historic play here, which while I had some experience in the theater, I wasn’t an expert. So, I pitched the idea to the Butler Little Theatre,” Lukacs said.

So Lukacs got BLT performers involved and set out to research the time period and possible plays that might fit the space.

“After a few weeks of researching early vaudeville and American theater, I decided it would be easier, funnier, and an amazing opportunity to just write my own that combined the things I learned in my research, and was tailor made for the OSH (Old Stone House) and BLT,” he said.

Once Lukacs set to it, the play was finished in a little over a month.

Lukacs himself takes on the role of Daniel.

“He is a roguish cad with a flair for the theatrical,” he said.

“I love playing the fool sometimes. Daniel let’s me be goofy and ham it up, even with the Shakespeare bits,” he added.

Greg Crawford of Chicora stars as Sir Basil Rathbone.

“Sir Basil is a sheltered Englishman who wears his chin a bit too high, yet has a romantic and playful heart,” said Crawford.

“I am very comfortable in comedic supporting roles and ‘British snob’ seems to echo in the air when my name comes up in local theater.”

This will be his second foray into performing in an intimate setting, which he said can be challenging. Crawford appeared earlier this year in Hobnob Theatre Company’s “A Woman of No Importance” at The Art Center in Butler.

“The last small-space show was a great success and the closeness added a wonderful dimension that was very enjoyable. I have every reason to expect the same at the Old Stone House,” he said.

Crawford last played Stanley Gardner in the BLT production of “Run for Your Wife” in May.

“The Stone House” also will feature Austin Uram as Jack, Shannon Donovan as Juliet and Shaun Donovan as Ned, as well as other supporting actors.

The show runs about an hour.