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Donnerstag, 4. April 2019
19 Uhr | Lindenhalle
CROOKED LETTER,
CROOKED LETTER
Sternchenthema Abitur!
Theater in englischer Sprache
This powerful and gripping novel is set in the American
deep South. Tom Franklin‘s award winning novel deals
with issues of racial and gender inequality and the troubling
desire of society to find scapegoats for crime in an exciting
format: the classic American thriller.
The setting is rural Mississippi in the late 1970s. Larry Ott
and Silas Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as
different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-
class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black
mother. yet for a few months the boys shared a special
bond and became secret friends. But then tragedy struck:
Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was
never heard from again. Was it murder? She was never
found and Larry never confessed, but everyone thought
they ‘knew” that Larry killed the girl. The incident shook the
county and perhaps Silas most of all. His friendship with
Larry was broken and Silas left town.
More than twenty years passed. Larry, a mechanic, now
lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the
whispers of suspicion. Silas has returned to Mississippi as
a police constable. He and Larry have no reason to cross
paths until another girl disappears and Larry is suspected
again. And now the two men who once called each other
friends are forced to confront the past they have tried to
bury under the shadow of a new murder.
PrEISE:
VVK € 15,00 / ermäßigt € 13,00
AK € 18,00 / ermäßigt € 16,00
Schüler und Studenten € 7,00
Bildnachweis: American Drama Group Europe
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