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Onionheads
Winner of the 1999 American College Theatre Festival.
This soulful play takes a raw, poetic look at the plight of onion farmers on the edge in the 1935 Oklahoma Dust Bowl. The Tidwell brothers and the Bumpinmeyer sisters explore young love, hard times and loss of family as the sky turns black and the onions die. When the sisters leave for Californee, a shocking truth hits the Tidwell farm and the boys are left with the relentless dust. Devastated, they follow the girls to the "land of milk an' honey" where, months later in a migrant camp in the grip of the Great Depression, they find the sisters buried in poverty and prostitution. The black secret of the Bumpinmeyer family is discovered. Skins are peeled in layers to reveal the sweet and the sour. Tragically, the dirt on these onion pickers never comes clean; the "land of plenty" grows nothing but the cries of dead hearts and broken Okies. Meanwhile, the devil sits in his shack, laughing.
(Samuel French, Inc.)
Performances:
Friday Nov 11th - 8:00pm
Saturday Nov 12th - 8:00pm
Sunday Nov 13th - 4:00pm
Friday Nov 18th - 8:00pm
Saturday Nov 19th - 8:00pm
Sunday Nov 20th - 4:00pm
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LocationFresno Soap Co Stage, Gallery & Studio (View)
1470 North Van Ness Avenue in the Tower District
Fresno, CA 93728
United States
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| Minimum Age: 13 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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