- Audiences
Forgottonia
Apr 29, 2024
01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Theatre Building, Catalano Acting Studio, Room 172
200 North Riverside Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242
Iowa New Play Festival – Reading Series
Forgottonia
By Eli Campbell
Directed by Sarah Gazdowicz
In 1987, the people of Forgottonia, Illinois are on the edge of poverty. In a last-ditch effort to save their town, they enter the Prison Sweepstakes, which would win them a government-funded prison (and all the jobs that come with it). But competing for a prison drags out more than they were bargaining for.
Please be advised this is a play about the prison industrial complex. There are themes of classism, racism, and prejudice, and contains onstage drug use.
Guest Roundtable to follow.
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