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New Work in Progress: Scotland, PA
This month, we chatted with Festival Alum Adam Gwon (Fest ’08, Ordinary Days; Fest ’11, Bernice Bobs Her Hair; Fest ’14, String) and Jill Rafson, Director of New Play Development at NAMT member Roundabout Theatre Company, about the theatre’s upcoming world premiere production of Scotland, PA. The piece, written by Gwon and Michael Mitnick, is a Roundabout commission and will be opening next month.
This deliciously dark new musical comedy, based on the cult film (and the bard’s Macbeth), springs to life in a sleepy Pennsylvania town (population 1,203—and dropping), where a burger-joint manager and his wife cook up a plan to super-size their lives. As their ambitions grow and the bodies fall, the couple finds out just how far they’ll go for a taste of the oh-so-tempting American dream.