Main Street Players

presents

The premier production of an original comedic drama by Georgia playwright

Sandra Jones Cropsey

“Who’s There?”

February 25^th through March 7^th, 2010

Who’s There? is an absurd southern comedy peppered with characters that are funny, sad, absurd, but most of all memorable.

Each day, on a chicken farm in the rural south, Momma, Sister, and Ivylee have a bizarre memorial service for Bunk’s amputated leg, which they otherwise keep in the freezer. Each looks for love and each waits. Someone knocks, but Momma’s beliefs are not strong enough for her to answer. So she looks for signs to help her understand who’s there. 

When asked about the absurdity of the storyline, Cropsey said, “I think southern author Flannery O’Connor summed it up best when she responded to a reporter in New York who asked why it was that southern authors always seem to write about the grotesque—‘Maybe we’re the only ones left who still recognize it.’”

“And not only do we recognize it,” says Cropsey, “We celebrate it.”

Who’s There? is a celebration, a sort of cross between Joseph Kesselring’s Arsenic and Old Lace and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, but with a southern flavor.”

Cropsey's characters are so bizarre that it is nothing short of amazing that she is able to make them believable beginning with the opening line from the novel—“Seemed harmless at first for Momma to keep Bunk's amputated leg in the freezer.”  

Who’s There? was a 2008 finalist in ForeWord Magazine’s “Book of the Year Awards” as well as the “Georgia Author of the Year Awards.” 

The Main Street Players, 115 North Hill Street, Griffin, brings Sandra Jones Cropsey’s new, madcap Southern/Gothic comedy to the stage, weekends, February 25^th-March 7^th, 2010; Thursdays-Saturdays . 7:30PM, Sundays . 3:00PM.

Reserved seat tickets are $20. Senior tickets are $15. Student tickets are $10. Groups of ten or more receive a 10% discount. For tickets and other information, please call 770-229-9916, 770-233-0578 or visit Click here.

This program is supported in part by the Ingram Foundation and the Grassroots Arts Program of the Georgia Council for the Arts through appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly and in partnership with Arts Clayton.