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Tobacco Road

Tobacco Road

by Jack Kirkland

Directed by
Janelle Cochrane

July 22-24
July 29-31
August 5-7
8:00 pm

August 1
2:30 pm

Reserve your seats!

Featuring
John Falkenberry as "Jeeter Lester"

Also featuring
Pam Elder, Dane Albright, William Brisky, Jack Heidt, Sarah Virginia Brock, Sally Montgomery, Mel Christian, Michael Walters, Maggie Ballard, Bates Redwine

This gripping classic will delight and astound you with its humorous and biting look at the lives of sharecropper Jeeter Lester and his family, trapped by poverty in rural Georgia as their living standards steadily decline. This powerful drama, adapted from the controversial novel by Erskine Caldwell, invites us to laugh at our shortcomings.

For mature audiences only.


Haden Gaines Marsh
Gallery
2009-2010

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Almost, Maine

 Almost, Maine

Old-time string bands play preshow music for Tobacco Road

Jubilee, from Starkville MS, played for the July 22 opening night. Bands scheduled for other nights include HeyHowdies (Joyce and Jim Cauthen and Rachel Turner, part of Birmingham's Flying Jenny), Sara Green, and The Potted Meat Boys. Arrive early—7:15ish—to experience this distinctively American music from the era of Tobacco Road!

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