

Quail Southwest
Larry Ketron
THE STORY: The setting is an abandoned railroad maintenance station in the rural South, which Larkin, a temporary college drop-out, has moved into both in order to think over his future and to spend more time with his nubile young girlfriend, Jewel
"An exuberant, captivating examination of coming of age in today's South which, in the words of The New York Times, “…captures its youthful characters at that precise moment when their adolescent fantasies begin to fade into the morning-after realities of adulthood.” “This study of a group of young Southerners backing into maturity has fresh observation, sharp characterization and robust humor."
— Variety
"His dialogue is lively, fluent, flavorful: He is particularly good at rendering, to comic effect, the sound of stupid people taking themselves more seriously than they deserve."
— Village Voice. ”Ketron's command of character and speech is extremely accurate. New York Daily News
"His dialogue is lively, fluent, flavorful: He is particularly good at rendering, to comic effect, the sound of stupid people taking themselves more seriously than they deserve."
— Village Voice. ”Ketron's command of character and speech is extremely accurate. New York Daily News
Fresh Horses is a American play written by Larry Ketron and published by Dramatists Play Service (1998).
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