Tickets are now on sale to see Kathryn Luce Garfunkel (The Fantastiks) in 2 By Tennessee Williams: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Kingdom of Earth. Helmed by Marilyn Fried, the pair of one-act plays will run for a limited engagement July 9 through September 4. Opening night is scheduled for July 15 at St. Luke's Theatre.
In 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, after Jake, a shady, middle-aged cotton gin owner, burns down rival Silva Vicarro's mill, Vicarro attempts to enact vengeance by seducing Flora, Jake's delicate young wife.
In Kingdom of Earth, a flood is surging in the Mississippi Delta, and Chicken's property is only safe until ole man Sikes down the road dynamites his levee to save himself. While Chicken waits alone in his kitchen for the inevitable blast, he receives an unexpected visit from his dying half-brother, Lot, and Lot's wife of but one day, Myrtle. Leaving Lot upstairs to rest, Chicken assesses Myrtle as a potential threat to his inheritance of the estate, currently under Lot's name. Chicken and Myrtle find common ground but not even footing in their similar experiences of the inescapable hardness of the world - two "lost, sinful, puzzled" souls falling into a familiar power dynamic and bracing themselves as the waters rise.
The cast will also include Anthony Alessandro, Jim Biberi and Mike Keller.
2 By Tennessee Williams will feature sets by Meagan Parker, lighting by Tim Secrest and John B. Forbes, costumes by Hunter Dowell and sound by Jessica and Jennifer Davison.