Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
by EM Lewis
September 7th - 22nd
Blurb:
In one hour, Lynn is going to climb onto a Greyhound bus, leaving her home, her husband, her job and her family behind to work on a commercial fishing boat in Alaska; her family has decided that they'll do anything to make her stay. "Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday" is a comedy about trying to explain why you have to go find yourself to people who don't want anything to change.
Cheap-skate Discounts:
Preview tickets on Sept. 9th are $15
Saturday Matinees are $5 cheaper
Student Rush Tickets are $15
Union (AEA) actor tickets are $15
Arts and Education card holders get $15 tickets
Street parking is free on Sundays.
This production underwritten by the Greater St. Louis Community Foundation's Steve Nelson Memorial Playwright Fund
Cast:
TBD
Designers:
TBD
* represents members of Actors' Equity, the union of professional actors and stage managers
Mentions/Awards/Kudos:
This show was the chosen script from our 6th Annual GreenHouse New Play Festival.
From the Reviewers:
None yet!
From the Playwright:
To say I lie for a living would be too harsh. But it's true that everything I write is fiction.
Lynn -- the main character in my play, and I, do have a few things in common. We're both from rural Oregon, where this play takes place. We both have families that love us. We both have marriages that ended badly. Mine didn't turn out to be a comedy. But I didn't know that yet, when I wrote this. I wrote this when I was in a dark and terrible place in my life, with no idea it was going to get darker and more terrible. It's a comedy, because I firmly believe that at the darkest times, we need comedy most. It asks a question that I really, really needed the answer to when I wrote it. That question is, "what if?" What if I just left? Everything and everyone behind. Ran away. Went AWOL. Abandoned ship. And became a commercial fisherperson in Alaska? This play is fiction. One hundred percent. But I still think about Alaska sometimes. The idea of Alaska. Even now.
About the Playwright:
EM Lewis won the 2009 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award from the American Theater Critics Association for "Song of Extinction," which premiered in Los Angeles. The play was a finalist for HotCity's Greenhouse Festival in 2008, won University of Oregon’s EcoDrama Festival, the Ashland New Plays Festival, the Ted Schmitt Award from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, and Production of the Year from the LA Weekly Awards. It was published in Dramatics magazine and by Samuel French, leading to productions in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, at Ion Theater in San Diego, and at the Guthrie. Lewis also wrote the Primus Prize-winning Iraq War hostage drama "Heads," and "Infinite Black Suitcase," (now available from Samuel French). Lewis is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the recipient of a 2010-2011 Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, and just returned from workshopping her new play "Magellanica: A New and Accurate Map of the World" at the William Inge Center for the Arts. www.emlewisplaywright.com