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Playwright
Joan Ackermann
Performance Dates
May 29 - June 1, June 4-8, 1997
Creative Team
Directed by..................................Christina Kirk
Scenic Design by.........................Fred Thayer
Sound & Lighting Design by........Dana White
Costume Design by.....................Katie Robbins
Synopsis
On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the car, the play examines the emotional landscape we roam as we travel in our cars. Control, navigation, love and escape, are some of the themes explored. A protective father shepherds his son through the neighborhood on Halloween; an actor on his way to perform Hamlet provokes a rear-end collision and confrontation with a Czech émigré cab driver; a devastated businessman strikes up an unlikely alliance with a homeless woman who sleeps in his car. This is the landscape of human frailty and vulnerability, charm and strength; a playwright's whimsy combined with a shrewd sense of observation. Eleven vignettes in an automobile provide a marvelously offbeat, winning evening. "In Ackermann's hands, the maps that are not so easily read are what count. This is a play about connections and how we make them; how we get to where we are or where we are going, over roads that are not always so well traveled…[a] remarkable, thoroughly engaging new play…" —Berkshire Eagle. https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=2757
Disciplines
Acting | Dance | Theatre and Performance Studies | Theatre History
Keywords
College Theater, Otterbein University Theatre, Musical Theatre, Drama
Recommended Citation
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department, "Marcus is Walking: Scenes from the Road" (1997). 1996-1997 Season. 3.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/production_1996-1997/3