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First Staged Reading of 2018: TOM’S A-COLD by David Egan, directed by Paul Baker

December 28, 2017 Leave a Comment

January 12, 2018 at 8:00pm at Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 South Woodlawn Avenue.

Admission $5

Tom’s a-cold
written by David Egan,
directed and enacted by Paul Baker & David Egan
 
On May 19, 1845, HMS Terror and Erebus set sail from London to find a Northwest Passage over the Canadian Arctic and across into the Pacific. Neither ship nor crew ever returned from this doomed Franklin Expedition.

Two men sit in a lifeboat, ravaged by malnutrition and hunger, haunted by dreams of home, and by each other. They joke, they tell stories, they quarrel, and they fight. And slowly, they must come to terms with the awful truths of their predicament.  PG-13: some disturbing language.
David Egan is also the author of Fly-Bottle, which he shared with us 2 seasons ago.

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