The Life and Times of Tulsa Lovechild
Play Description
A disillusioned young woman traveling with her hippie mother’s ashes. A disillusioned TV star hitch-hiking across America. A Russian dissident turned motel owner. A lovesick farmer and a kidnapped beauty queen. Conjoined twins escaping a cult once led by a dead Senator reincarnated as a real-estate developer. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TULSA LOVECHILD is a freeway fantasia about love and hope.
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (6 female, 7 male)Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
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Press Quotes
“Aside from some beautiful dialogue and a delightfully optimistic spirit, the greatest strength of this play is that its characters confound all stereotypes. Most plays about misfits in motels go for easy archetypes. By contrast, Owens’s piece of rural Gothic not only respects the human spirit … but also celebrates the romance of the interstate.” —Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
“TULSA LOVECHILD straddles the delightfully absurd and painfully real without cracking at the seams.” —Robin Rauzi, Los Angeles Times
“What Owens has given us is a post-Jack Kerouac look at the forces that can go bump in the night in this country … every wise, wistful, whimsical, darkly comic, quasi-tragic note of Owens’s script is played with truth and wit. There is a cartoonish quality to the way all their fates coalesce, but there also is truth and genuine sentiment in it. And therein lies the gentle magic of this play.” —Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun Times
“With tongue-in-cheek, but with generosity of spirit, author Greg Owens concludes that goodness and decency survive in unexpected nooks and crannies and souls, even as the forces of hypocrisy and darkness constantly are reborn.” —Jonathan Abarbanel, Windy City Times
“… oddly intoxicating road story, a bittersweet comedy that will likely have particular resonance for baby boomers who grew up during the flower-child era and witnessed its aftermath … the play is breezily amusing and very intelligent …” —Les Spindle, Backstage West
Author(s)
Greg OwensWhile earning his MFA in the early '90s at Indiana University, Greg wrote, directed, and produced several of his early scripts in an old bus garage with the Bloomington Playwrights Project. The rest of that decade and into the next, he was frequently on the road from Chicago to New York and Los Angeles and cities of all sizes across the country, sleeping on floors while putting up low-fi productions of his work, including U.S. BLUES, HOME FRONT, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TULSA LOVECHILD: A ROAD TRIP, and his critically acclaimed Chicago Fringe Festival production of THE QUEEN OF BAKERSFIELD & OTHER TALES OF DUST AND MOONLIGHT. The culmination of this road warrior phase came in 2001 when THE LIFE & TIMES OF TULSA LOVECHILD was named the Best Off-Loop Play of the Year by the Chicago Tribune. After moving to Montana at the turn of the decade, Greg wrote and directed for the similarly peripatetic artists of the Vigilante Theatre Company who, with four actors and a van, toured his work for hundreds of performances throughout culturally under-served areas of the Rocky Mountain West. Greg lives in Bozeman, Montana with his family.
Special Notes
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Originally produced by The Subterranean Theater Company, North Hollywood
In addition, the following must appear within all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play:
by special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NYC
www.broadwayplaypub.com
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