Katie Schorr
as Hannah

Brian Watkins*
as Jake

Amy Lee Pearsall
as Sarah

  
 
 

November 4 - 21, 2010
at UNDER St. Marks Theatre

High Plains

Set on the dark and expansive Colorado plains, this one-man confession tells the story of Jake, a young drifter, who is haunted by a cruel childhood secret that has finally caught up with him.


My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer

Two clashing sisters agree on only one thing: they hate the family sheep, their mother's only friend. In this eerie tale that treads the line between humor and horror, tradition takes a turn for the worse, as the family attempts to domesticate the last remaining member of their former flock and ends up with a tragic twist of fate.

 

  
 

High Plains is Directed by Anthony Reimer
My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer is Directed by Kristin Skye Hoffmann

  
 

* Denotes a member of Actor's Equity

 
       
 


" * * * * "
[Four Stars]

- Time Out New York

"Watkins is a gorgeous writer, tightly weaving this Colorado tale of how Jake unwittingly altered the future for his hyperactive, violence-prone brother back when they both were kids."

- Time Out New York

Praise for High Plains:

"thoroughly engaging, expertly acted, and terrifically written piece. A one-man-show, it plays like a modern-day campfire ghost story, only the flames are replaced by the neon lights of a local bar, and the ghosts are not chain-rattling specters, but the mysterious manifestations of a complicated past.

Watkins has written a disturbing, thought-provoking tale with an ending that is guaranteed to inspire debate and reflection, and Reimer's direction ensures that we are nothing other than rapt with attention."
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- NYTheatre.com

 

  
 
 
 

 

Press Release:

Wide Eyed Productions will present an evening of two resonant and eerie fables written by playwright Brian Watkins. THE PRAIRIE PLAYS explore questions of myth, family, heritage, faith and fear in very different ways. These ain't your typical Westerns!

MY DAUGHTER KEEPS OUR HAMMER, directed by Kristin Skye Hoffmann, is about two clashing sisters (Amy Lee Pearsall and Katie Schorr) who agree on only one thing: they hate the family sheep, their mother's only friend. In this eerie tale that treads the line between humor and horror, tradition takes a turn for the worse, as the family attempts to domesticate the last remaining member of their former flock and ends up with a tragic twist of fate.

HIGH PLAINS, directed by Anthony Reimer, is set on the dark and expansive Colorado plains. This one-man confession tells the story of Jake (Brian Watkins), a young drifter, who is haunted by a cruel childhood secret that has finally caught up with him.

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Emily Owens PREmily Owens, Press Agent