Terre Haute is a 2006 play by the American writer Edmund White.[1]

Terre Haute
Written byEdmund White
Date premiered2006
Place premieredEdinburgh Festival Fringe
Edinburgh, Scotland
Original languageEnglish

Plot edit

It deals with a fictional encounter between the 1995 Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and a character similar to author Gore Vidal in the days prior to the former's 2001 execution inside a prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Productions edit

The play made its stage première as part of the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, and transferred to Trafalgar Studios, a West End theatre located London, England, in May 2007.[1] The U.S. premiere was in San Francisco in 2007.[2] Its New York City, New York, début was in 2009, at the 59E59 Theaters, an off-Broadway theatre complex.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Hetrick, Adam (October 2, 2010). "Terre Haute, Co-Starring Mike Farrell and Jim Parrack, Begins in Hollywood Oct. 2" Archived 2010-11-12 at the Wayback Machine. Playbill. Retrieved March 5, 2011.
  2. ^ "Review: White's 'Terre Haute' Haunts".