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Kate Jeffries, BA ’04,
and Jeff Lange, BA ’03, rehearse a scene from Trash
at MU’s Corner Playhouse. Dan Glover photo
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White's
Trash Plays
in New York
By Nancy Moen
Hillbilly love and flyin’ refrigerators are hitting New
York. A play written by an MU doctoral student in theatre is being
performed at the New York International
Fringe Festival Aug. 12 through Aug. 28. The festival features
200 companies performing plays at more than 20 venues.
The six performances of Trash, a
comedy by playwright David White, reunites four MU actors and
technicians who as students took the play to the York Theatre
in New York for Mizzou on Broadway. Jeff Lange, BA ’03,
will reprise the role of Bob; doctoral student Eric Love is directing;
and Bill Kennedy, BA ’04, is working the sound and lighting.
Trash is the first Mizzou on Broadway production picked
up by other companies.
Trash is an Ozark folk tale set
in the fictitious town of Last Chance, Mo., somewhere along the
Missouri/Arkansas state line. In the comedy, three friends living
in the Ozark Mountains discover how the junkyard they call home
can help them cope with tragedy, triumph and all the abandoned
appliances littering the hills.
White is literary manager at the Eugene O’Neill
Theatre Center in Waterford, Conn., and is working on his MU doctoral
dissertation. He takes inspiration from and writes about his childhood
stomping grounds in the Ozarks of Missouri. “I find myself
thinking about how the Ozarks is so inherently theatrical,”
he says.
Immanent
Eye Productions is producing the play at the Access Theatre.
For information on the dates and times of performances, visit
the production Web site.
Tickets are available through the Fringe Festival.
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