Crooked
by Catherine Trieschmann
*Presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

Featuring Jane Mattingly, Jennifer Levine, and Megan Adair.
Directed by Doug Schutte & Scot Atkinson.

October 22-25 (7:30 PM)
Advanced Tickets $16 ($14 seniors 65+, $12 students)
At the door: $18/16/14

"Funny, heart-warming, and gut-wrenching all in one!"

FROM THE ARTS-LOUISVILLE REVIEW:

"Treischmann’s play is thoughtful and penetrating, a beautiful work that largely avoids melodramatic incident in favor for smaller moments of resolution and reconciliation. The greatness of Crooked lies in the restraint it applies to deep emotions and human conflict. It is also no small thing to point out that The Bard’s Town seems to have a taste for chamber pieces designed for women to portray complex and contradictory characters (Rapture, Blister & Burn and Collected Stories)."

Fourteen year old Laney arrives in Oxford, Mississippi with a twisted back, a mother in crisis and a burning desire to be writer. When she befriends Maribel Purdy, a fervent believer in the power of Jesus Christ to save her from the humiliations of high school, Laney embarks on a hilarious spiritual and sexual journey that challenges her mother's secular worldview and threatens to tear their fragile relationship apart.

"The work of a big accomplished writer's voice...a gem of a discovery." - The New York Times

"Gorgeous almost beyond belief." - The London Times