Performances:
Thurs. 9/15 @ 7:30pm PREVIEW
Fri. 9/16 @ 8pm OPENING NIGHT Fri. 9/23 @ 8pm
Sat. 9/17 @ 8pm Sat. 9/24 @ 8pm
Sun. 9/18 @ 3pm Sun. 9/25 @ 3pm
Come for an evening of two classic American one-acts, Trifles by Susan Glaspell and William Saroyan's Hello, Out There!
Performed upstairs in the historic W.W. Holding Cotton Exchange Warehouse, presently known as The Cotton Company, audience members will enjoy an intimate theatre experience as actors perform on a three quarter thrust stage.
Come to town early and enjoy the charm of downtown Wake Forest with its many shops, local restaurants and breweries.
Tickets - $20, available online (preferred). Tickets can also be purchased with cash or Venmo at the door. Seating is limited.
House opens 30 minutes prior to the performance. Wine, beer and light concessions will be available.
Some play themes may be considered PG-13.
Trifles
“They say it was such a—funny way to kill a man, rigging it all up like that.”
Trifles was written by Susan Glaspell, a Pulitzer-Prize Winner. This play is based loosely on a murder that Glaspell herself was reporting on as a journalist for the Des Moines Daily News in 1900.
The play begins "in the now-abandoned farmhouse of John and Minnie Wright". On command from the County Attorney, Mr. Hale recounts his previous visit to the house. He found Mrs. Wright behaving strangely and her husband upstairs dead, with a rope around his neck. While the men investigate, the wives are left in the kitchen to gather items for Mrs. Wright who is in question.
Trifles was first performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1916.
Hello, Out There
“…two lonely souls meet, improbably and tragically, in a Texas jail.” -Chicago Reader, Lawrence Bommer
“Hello, Out There reveals the adventure of Photo Finish, an itinerant gambler, who is arrested and jailed in a small Texas town and charged with rape.” -Concord Theatricals
This one-act play was written by the Armenian-American playwright William Saroyan in August 1941.