Terre Haute (play)
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| writer = Edmund White
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| premiere = 2006
| place = Edinburgh Festival Fringe
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Terre Haute is a 2006 play by the American writer Edmund White.Hetrick, Adam (October 2, 2010). [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/143529-Terre-Haute-Co-Starring-Mike-Farrell-and-Jim-Parrack-Begins-in-Hollywood-Oct-2 "Terre Haute, Co-Starring Mike Farrell and Jim Parrack, Begins in Hollywood Oct. 2"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101112113717/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/143529-Terre-Haute-Co-Starring-Mike-Farrell-and-Jim-Parrack-Begins-in-Hollywood-Oct-2 |date=2010-11-12 }}. Playbill. Retrieved March 5, 2011.
Plot
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
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. The U.S. premiere was in San Francisco in 2007.{{cite web| url = http://www.broadwayworld.com/san-francisco/article/Review-Whites-Terre-Haute-Haunts-20070411#| title = Review: White's 'Terre Haute' Haunts}} Its New York City, New York, début was in 2009, at the 59E59 Theaters, an off-Broadway theatre complex.
References
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{{Wikinews|Edmund White on writing, incest, life and Larry Kramer}}
Category:Plays based on actual events
Category:Works by Edmund White
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