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2009 Season of Plays |
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Two aging outlaws return to the roaring cowtown they remember, to find it a dusty remnant of its rowdy past. But Babe & Beau have 20 years of living to make up, & they're not about to be "tamed & tidied." A rollicking, poignant portrait of the Old West, with video & live music. Click here to learn more... October 23/24/25 & 31/November 1 A narrow mountain pass, scene of stage holdups & a bloody massacre in the 19th century, is now only an overgrown trail, but few who venture there are ever seen again. Is Black Canyon, as Indian legend claims, an opening into the underworld? December 11/12/13 Rural NM, 1933: a lone pine on the treeless plains; Cass & Manny lost in a blizzard; & a strangely-compelling Christmas Eve visitor who “rode the rails” to Magdalena. A lively Christmas with the Aragons & the Trotters. London Frontier, in its historic WPA venue and 14th season in Magdalena, continues to present a wide variety of plays incorporating our vivid multi-culture in exciting, entertaining theatre. *Each episode of the "Lost Wife Creek" is a complete play in itself. All performances at Magdalena's Historic WPA Theatre, Main at Fourth St. For a downloadable PDF of the 2009 Season Schedule, click here. Download the latest version of the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader to read PFD documents
Our thanks to: December 5, 6 & 7 Festival, party, entertainment, for the Holiday Season! As always, Christmas - and Chanukah, and the Midwinter Solstice - is
a time for rich memories, family - and community - gatherings, for sharing laughter, sentiment, good food and good wishes, to begin the festive season. |
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Our nostalgic journey began on
Friday evening, with THE LONG RIDE OF ST. NICK, in which two homeless people and their stray dog find meaning - and magic - in the Season, riding the night sky in an improbable sleigh and meeting with a lonely,
compelling Creator of universes. The second feature - WANDERING STARR & LITTLE GLORY - brings us to Lost Wife Creek for Christmas, 1933, with the Aragones and the
Trotters. Times are hard - the Great Depression - in rural NM, but the season is lively, with Manny's amazing lighting for the (stolen) Christmas tree, and the arrival of Starr and little sister
Glory, runaways from the Santa Fe scene. Lucy, the "lost wife", and Ambrose - of the Orphan Train and the many uncles - join in the festivities, and all gather in the Trotters' farm kitchen to give
thanks for life, love, and the miracle of the Season.
Saturday evening, December 6, was a "Come home to Lost Wife Creek for Christmas" special, with WANDERING STAR &
LITTLE GLORY, followed by ALL SHONE 'ROUND ABOUT - again, a Lost Wife Creek Christmas (1934). Sharing the Christmas spirit (and spirits) are Gardy and Cass Trotter, Mr.
Gibbers - whose potent family eggnog recipe adds "life" to the gathering - and Gardy's fashionable sister Ivy - but is Ruby Aragon a deserted wife or a widow? Where is Manny? His
search for work is the chronicle of many a Depression-era job-seeker (Boulder Dam, Chicago in the mob era), but with the inimitable Aragon misadventures.
