TERRE HAUTE
by Edmund White
Directed by Kirsten Sanderson
Starring Mike Farrell and Jim Parrack
October 2 - November 14, 2010
2nd Stage Theatre
6500 Santa Monica Blvd.
Did you know that Timothy McVeigh and Gore Vidal were pen pals? What would their conversations have been like if they had ever met in person? Famed fiction writer Edmund White, has imagined just that; four prison house conversations between the nation’s deadliest domestic terrorist and one of the world’s most famous and opinionated gadflies. The names have been changed, the ideas have not. This intimate and fascinating portrait of two men, both firebrands who say and do as they believe, delves deeply into the idea of what it means to be American and what one believes they must do for their country.
"White has captured the amusingly constricted voices of the patrician novelist and the plebian terrorist cannily and cogently." -Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
ABOUT THE CAST:
Mike Farrell is perhaps best known for playing Captain B.J. Hunnicutt on television’s M*A*S*H. During his eight years on the show, he also wrote and directed several episodes, earning him nominations for Director’s Guild and Emmy Awards. More recently on television, Mike played veterinarian Jim Hansen on NBC’s Providence with Melina Kanakaredes. Jim Parrack currently appears in HBO’s True Blood as Hoyt Fortenberry, a role he originated when the series made its debut in 2008. He has also made guest appearances on Monk, ER, CSI, Grey’s Anatomy, Close to Home, NCIS, and Criminal Minds, among others.
