Completed by Kirk Lynn
Directed by Rob Melrose
Workshop performance
NEUHAUS THEATRE
Kirk Lynn, Artistic Director of Austin’s Rude Mechs theatre collective, collaborates with the late Thornton Wilder, three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker, on Wilder’s last, lost, full-length play. In the era of the great department stores, a young man from an orphanage is adopted by a farmer but runs away to the big city only to discover… all this is only a metaphor, and maybe life is really an elaborate job interview to determine if we even qualify to apply for our own existence.
The Emporium contains mild Language and passing references to Violence and suicide in this contemporary adaptation of an unfinished play by one of America's greatest writers. To learn more about the content of this show, please click here for our content advisory page.
Before you attend the performance, the program provides cast bios, sponsor backgrounds, and further reading. Read.
as John
as Bernice, Mrs. Foster, Mrs. Graham, Mrs. Dobb, Mrs. D'Agostino, Ermengarde Craigie
as Mr. Foster, Mr. Graham, Mr. Hobmeyer, Mr. Connover, Mr. Craigie
as Laurencia
