LONE STAR
by James McLure
The play examines what happens when you wake up one morning and wonder how you got lost in the vast expanse of Texas. The year is 1975 and Roy, the Vietnam vet, is drunk again. His brother Ray, ever patient and smarter than he appears, babysits him. Enter Cletis, the anti-Roy, and you have the critical mass needed for an explosion of raunchy laughs and a few touching moments.
Produced and originally staged by Gary Payne of G-Ray Productions on July 10, 1996.
Restaged by ONSTAGE with the original cast and staging:
October 1996 (in association with The Company)
July 1999
July 2000
July 2001
All performances were at the Dougherty Arts Center.
CAST:
Ken Bradley (pictured, right) - Roy
Michael Stuart (pictured, left) - Ray
Craig Kanne - Cletus T. Fullernoy
In her review of the pair's original production, Austin Chronicle arts writer Adrienne Martini wrote that Lone Star "glistens like an ice-cold beer on a summer day. Ken Bradley and Michael Stuart, as Roy and Ray, seem to be having a genuinely good time playing genuinely likable characters, and they deliver almost every line with impeccable timing, so that it is hard not to laugh until you bust a Texas-sized gut."
