Pushcart Productions, Plainfield Arts (formerly Friends of Plainfield Opera House), and the Grange Hall Cultural Center is proud to present:
"Trumbo: Red White & Blacklisted"
Written by Christopher Trumbo
Directed by Monica Callan
Starring Donny Osman and Nick Charyk
Feb 17 &18 @ 7:30pm
Feb 19 @ 3pm
Starring Donny Osman as Dalton Trumbo and Nick Charyk as his son Christopher, this production garnered audiences to leap to their feet at the end of every single show in its Plainfield run this past weekend. It is the story of Dalton Trumbo, one of the original Hollywood Ten who were blacklisted in Hollywood denying them of their livelihood as writers for decades.
Donny Osman is a marvel, the writing is extraordinary, and the story is one that is beyond prescient and relatable to anyone regardless of political views. It's a fascinating study in the humanity of a many faceted American, an important slice of our American history to examine (especially now), and a moving and witty evening of theater.
"...the letters are thrilling, uneconomical torrents of words, alternately grandiloquent, ferocious, withering, sentimental, thunderously overwrought and always tailored, often hilariously, to their intended readership of one." --Bruce Weber, NYT
The play was first created in 1997 when Christopher Trumbo organized a one-off event honoring his late father in which Steve Martin, an old friend of the Trumbo family, read from Dalton Trumbo's letters. The reception was so enthusiastic that Christopher reshaped the evening as a two-character play—Trumbo: Red, White, and Blacklisted—that opened as an Off-Broadway production in 2003, starring Nathan Lane as Trumbo. Successive Trumbos in that production included Alec Baldwin, Brian Dennehy, Ed Harris, Richard Dreyfuss, and Tim Robbins.
A dynamic team of Vermont artists and a scholar/artist have teamed up to bring the Oscar winning screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo's words to life. Donny Osman, a longtime Vermont theater type, will play Trumbo. History and context for the letters and speeches are provided through the narration of Trumbo's son, played by Nick Charyk, front man of the Vermont band The Western Terrestrials. The play is directed by Waterbury theater maker and co-founder of MOXIE Productions and GHCC, Monica Callan. Founder of Montpelier's Savoy Theater, Rick Winston, and author of Red Scare in the Green Mountains: The McCarthy Era in Vermont 1946-1960, is serving as the show's dramaturg.
Schedule of Events:
Grange Hall Cultural Center, 317 Howard Avenue, Waterbury Center, VT
(tickets @ SevenDaystickets.com or cash/check @ door)
February 17 & 18 @ 7:30pm
February 19 @ 3pm
Main Street Museum, 58 Bridge Street, White River Junction, VT
(tickets @ SevenDaystickets.com or cash/check @ door)
March 4 @ 7:30pm
March 5 @ 3pm
Nov 11, 2024, 7 to 8:30 PM
Weekday Morning FitnessNov 12, 2024, 7 to 7:45 AM
Tiny Black House Takeout Fall SeriesNov 14, 2024, 4:30 to 6 PM