Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
by Ed Graczyk
directed by Miranda Armitage
Monday 16 - Saturday 28 July 2007
Wharfeside Theatre
In a small-town dime store in west Texas, the ‘Disciples of James Dean’ gather for their twentieth reunion. Now grown women, they were teenagers when Dean filmed "Giant" two decades earlier in nearby Marfa. Throughout the play, the ladies relive the events of that fateful night in 1955 when their idol crashed his Porsche on a lonely stretch of California highway. Their reminiscences mingle with flashbacks to their youth; then the arrival of a stunning and momentarily unrecognized woman sets off a series of confrontations …
Playwright Ed Graczyk says... “Jimmy Dean can only be described as the result of my own frustrations with progress that ignores a past … and the recurring need of people to build facades to conceal the truths of their lives.”
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