NAOMI WALLACE AND THE PRODUCTION HISTORY OF THE TRESTLE AT POPE LICK CREEK
Naomi Wallace
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Dramaturgy of Desire: The Theatre of Naomi Wallace
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Dramaturgy of Desire: The Theatre of Naomi Wallaceby Michael Bigelow Dixon (who was the dramaturg on the original production of The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek)
Production History
Production History of Naomi Wallace's Plays
“… The honor for the most original and memorable work of this year’s 22nd Humana Festival goes to another Kentuckian, Naomi Wallace, for her brilliant THE TRESTLE AT POPE LICK CREEK … After the two-act play ended with an erotic, gender-twisted climax, there was a moment in the darkness when I thought: ‘This must be how it felt when people saw A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE for the very first time.’ Like Tennessee Williams’s daring play, Wallace’s work introduces a new level of sexual honesty with a fresh mature voice. TRESTLE wraps its five characters in a metaphorical drama within a romantic and tragic mystery. It’s a complicated, interwoven play that moves back and forth in time between past and present, with layers of meaning that overlap and build upon each other. Despite its depth of symbolism and clear political message, the play is neither stuffy nor strident. A bright ripple of humor funs through Wallace’s play about two sexually charged young people who consider a game of chicken with an oncoming train. Wallace’s keen psychological insights evoke compassion for her characters. Tears are shed and not only over the pathos of the play … The actors stir the emotions with the tender way they expose the fragility and indomitable beauty of the human spirit, as revealed through Wallace’s words … If Wallace’s plays were a visual art, ONE FLEA SPARE would be a baroque oil painting, while THE TRESTLE AT POPE LICK CREEK would be a 1930s American photograph with contrasting lights and shadows and its direct, unsentimental and uncensored gaze into the lives of the working class.” —Judith Egerton, Courier-Journal, Louisville
Actors Theatre of Louisville, 1998
New York Theatre Workshop, 1999
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 2001
Southwark Playhouse, London, 2003
British Theater Guide Review, 2003
Theater Schmeater, Seattle, 2006
Eclipse Theatre, Chicago, 2011
Other Plays by Naomi Wallace
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