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A TennesseeWalk

A play with music

By Robb Winn Anderson

June 19-23

JSU Drama is proud to present the winner of the 2012 Southern Playwright's Contest hosted by the English and Drama departments and sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences.  This play was also a Finalist for the 2009 Yale Drama Series, David C. Horn Prize and the co-winner of the 2009 Florida Long Johns Competition for StageWorks Theatre. It was a Finalist for the 2009 hotINK International Play Reading festival and the 2005 Theatre Publicus Award for Dramatic Literature. It was also selected as a Semi-Finalist for the 2006 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and was part of the inaugural Edward Albee Great Plains Theatre Conference in 2006.

There's A Skeleton In A Trainyard In East Tennessee

In September 1916 Erwin, TN became the center of media attention as they executed a circus elephant named Mary for the murder of one of her trainers.  2,500 people turned out to watch them hang Mary from a derrick car.  Bobbi Coleman was there.  And she has a story to tell that has never been told.  Freelance journalist Wade Ferguson is determined to find out what really happened on that fateful fall day.

Please note that this play may not be appropriate for those under 13 because of mature themes.