City pages ten best theater of 2002

Created by Jennifer Ilse, Paul Herwig, Marc Doty
Choreography by Jennifer Ilse
Sound & Music by Marc Doty
Set by Paul Herwig

Performed by: Jennifer Ilse, Paul Herwig, Marc Doty, Josh Scrimshaw

REVIEW - CITY PAGES

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It’s 1975. Lost among the dusty highways of the American West, four lonely souls on their way toward an American Dream collide at the Sunrise Café: Ginny Lee (Jennifer Ilse), a home fried waitress in search of a better life; The Trucker (Paul Herwig), a down-to-earth man on a spiritual quest; The Chef (Joshua Scrimshaw), a short order cook with a dangerous past; and The Mysterious Stranger (Marc Doty), an ageless balladeer.

“Imagine Sam Shepard and David Lynch meeting for cakes & links at a truckers’ café on the fault line between heaven and hell.