Leaving Iowa

Product Code: LE5000

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Approx. Run Time: 105 min.

Don, a middle-aged writer, decides to finally take his father's ashes to his childhood home. But when he discovers Grandma's house is now a grocery store, he begins traveling across Iowa in search of a proper resting place for his father. This father-and-son road trip shifts smoothly from the present to Don's memories of the annual, torturous vacations of his childhood.

Tom Sawyer

Product Code: TH6000

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Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

Telling the coming-of-age story of the community's most mischievous boy, this adaptation really brings to life Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer. A delightful introduction into the world of classic American characters.

Peg o' My Heart

Product Code: PB9000

Approx. Run Time: 100 min.

Peg O'Connell doesn't know what she's getting into when, fresh off the boat from America with just a parcel of clothes and her mongrel dog, she arrives at the English estate of her rich and not altogether gracious relatives. Confronted with Peg's Irish down-to-earth forthrightness, her demand to be called Peg not Margaret, her refusal to give up her beloved dog, and her strong ideas about social class morality, it soon becomes obvious who is going to educate whom!

Family Matters

Product Code: FA3000

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Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

What is a family? Playwright Sandra Fenichel Asher traveled the country running workshops in which teenagers and adults pondered that question and experimented with monologues and scenes based on significant events and interactions in their own families. The resulting script is a montage that gives every member of its large cast challenging opportunities for both solo and ensemble work. Family Matters presents the "full catastrophe" of family life, embracing its comic, dramatic, farcical and tragic realities. In the first section, "Talk," the eldest son of the core family reveals to his mother that far from his model student image, he's on the verge of flunking out of school; another mother regrets never telling her child the truth about his birth father; and the core family's rebellious daughter and her dad find it difficult to communicate in even the most superficial way. "Secrets" dips into the private worlds that three teens can reveal to only their very best friends, worlds darkened by abuse, mental illness and sexual assault. "Stuff" deals with the impact of "a look, a touch, a word, a smile" on teens and other family members as they attempt to reach out to one another. Family Matters was commissioned by the award-winning Youth Theatre at the U (University of Utah) and premiered at the Babcock Theatre. It was selected for further development as part of the Open Eye Theater's Bear Bones Series, funded in part by an Aurand Harris Grant from the Children's Theatre Association of America.

Elsewhere in Elsinore: The Unseen Women of Hamlet

Product Code: E51000

Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

What are the women of Elsinore Castle doing while Hamlet plots revenge? Elsewhere in Elsinore: The Unseen Women of Hamlet is a play in verse which explores the lives and motives of Ophelia and Gertrude.