Coming up in the Performing Arts Department: The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek
By Naomi Wallace
Jan 24-26 @ 8 pm
Jan 26 & 27 @ 2 pm
Directed by Andrea Urice
A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre
Winner of the MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, Naomi Wallace is a powerful, lyrical writer who incisively explores the underbelly of society. In The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Wallace gets beneath the skin in this strikingly poetic play set in a small town clutched within the grip of the Depression. A train passes through the community each day, a reminder that another world exists outside the dying town. As the train rumbles over the nearby trestle, two teenagers taunt each other with dangerous games of "chicken." One game is literal--can they outrun the train across the trestle? The other is more erotically charged.
