The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek

The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek

by NaomiWallace (Author), NaomiWallace (Author)

Synopsis

Dalton Chance, fifteen years old and an open book. Pace Creagan, seventeen, brimful of adventure, fearless and feared. To Dalton, she's irresistible. To Pace, he's a challenge. The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek is a beautiful and haunting play. A coming-of-age story with a wicked twist, it reaches into the depths of a nation and asks what lies beneath. The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek received its European premiere at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in February 2001.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 19 Feb 2001

ISBN 10: 0571210759
ISBN 13: 9780571210756
Book Overview: The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek by Naomi Wallace is a beautiful and haunting play: a coming-of-age story with a wicked twist, it reaches into the depths of a nation and asks what lies beneath.

Author Bio
Naomi Wallace's Finborough Theatre productions include And I And Silence, which subsequently transferred to Signature Theater, New York City. Theatre includes In the Heart of America (Bush Theatre), Slaughter City (Royal Shakespeare Company), One Flea Spare (Public Theater, New York City), The Trestle at Pope Lick Creekand Things of Dry Hours (New York Theatre Workshop), The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East(Public Theater, New York City), and Night is a Room (Signature Theater, New York City). Naomi has been awarded the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize twice, the Fellowship of Southern Writers Drama Award, the Obie Award and the Horton Foote Award. She is also a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts development grant. In 2013, Naomi received the inaugural Windham Campbell Prize for Drama, and in 2015 an Arts and Letters Award in Literature. Her play One Flea Spare was recently incorporated into the permanent repertoire of the French National Theatre, La Comedie-Francaise. Only two American playwrights have been added to La Comedie's repertoire in two hundred years, the other being Tennessee Williams.