24th Street Theatre
Proudly presents
Ghosts in the Cottonwoods
Adam Rapp's play is the bastard son of Dr. Seuss and Sam Peckinpah. Peppered
with fanciful language and heart-stopping shockers this eerie tale of
desperation and redemption is at once violent and funny.
Ghosts in the Cottonwoods was selected for the Public Theatre's 1996 New
Works Now! new plays festival and then went on to the 1996 Eugene O'Neill
National Playwrights Conference. In November 1999 it premiered at the
Rivendale Theatre Ensemble in Chicago. This is the play's Western Premier.
Bean and Pointer Scully are waiting to celebrate the backwoods homecoming of
the family's eldest son, Jeffcat, when a mysterious stranger with a fresh
gunshot wound interrupts the domestic scene. Disturbing revelations of past
misdeeds are upstaged by more immediate concerns as the rickety house,
buffeted by torrential rains must be tethered to a tree to keep it from
sliding off its mountain perch. In the midst of this chaos an angel appears,
in the form of a sweet-faced neighbor-girl, to save young Pointer from the
collapsing house of lies that Bean and Jeffcat have built.
Ghosts in the Cottonwoods runs 90 minutes without an intermission and plays
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2 and 7pm, April 14 through May
28. Tickets are $15 ($9 for senior and students with ID)
The 24th Street is located at Hoover and 24th Streets. It is two blocks
south of the Hoover Street Exit of the Santa Monica (I-10) Freeway and just
north of USC. There is free parking. For more information, directions and
reservations call the theatre at 213-745-6516. Visit the theatre's websight
at www.24thstreet.org <http://www.24thstreet.org> and email us at
glorioustheatre@earthlink.net.
The Playwright: Adam Rapp
In the fall of 1996, Mr. Rapp's play Trablinka received a stage reading at
the New York Theatre Workshop and was selected for the Public Theatre's 1997
New Works Now! festival and then went to the 1997 Eugene O'Neill National
Playwrights Conference were it won the Harold and Patricia Brodken
Scholarship.
Last year Adam received a commission from the Public Theatre for his
one-act, Night of the Whitefish, which was presented in the 1998 New Works
Now! festival. The Steppenwolf Theatre also commissioned him for his
full-length play, Netherbones. The American Repertory Theatre will be
producing his "Nocturne" soon.
Two of Mr. Rapp's Novels (The Copper Elephant and The Buffalo Tree) have
been nominated for National Book Awards and a third (Missing the Piano) was
named Best Book by the American Library Association.
Adam is a Playwright Fellow at Julliard where he was the recent recipient of
the Lincoln Center LeComte du Nuoy Award.