World Premiere!
The Good Son
by Craig Smith
Mar 16–Apr 1, 2012
Presented by Tennessee Stage Company as part of the 2012 New Play Festival
What would you do if your mother, dead for thirty years, suddenly turned up very much alive at your Uncle's funeral? And if the police illegally broke into your home searching for her and threatening you with a gun? If you were a good son, would you protect your mother? And if so, at what cost?
Playwright Craig Smith is a native of Knoxville, TN.
[Please note: This show contains adult language and themes and is not suitable for children.] |
Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage
by Jane Martin
Apr 27-May 13, 2012
Big 8, the feisty rodeo competitor from Talking With, is back. It's nineteen years later; she is still a bitter critter, now facing foreclosure on the Wyoming ranch where she rehabilitates injured rodeo cowboys. The arrival of a shocking woman named Shedevil and a one eyed Ukranian biker named Black Dog ushers in outrageous violence and horror in this shoot "em up, knock "em up, cut "em up comic romp that roasts the cowboy mentality of western writers like Zane Grey. Showcasing the antic side of this prolific, award winning playwright, this bodacious and macabre cross over comedy mixes horror and hilarity as it pits the code of the West against contemporary darkness.
"The funniest and the wildest. ... Adds still another dimension to this author's body of work. ... The laugh lines are non stop."
CenterStage
"Spurred the Humana Festival into full gallop. ... Borrows a heap of corniness from the B movie Westerns and mixes a few pieces and we really mean bits and pieces of horror in this hilarious, rip snortin' and effusively bloody two act. ...This is definitely good."
Scene
"High style farce, exuberantly played. ... It can be relished as an old fashioned "laugh riot' ... or as a devastating skewering of our pop culture inanities."
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