Lonesome Hollow
by Lee Blessing

Name: Lonesome Hollow
Brand: Lee Blessing
SKU: 9780822225416
Rating: 4.27 (11 reviews)

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90 minsUnit Set/Multiple Settings

What readers are saying

Readers find 'Lonesome Hollow' to be a deeply unsettling experience that lingers long after the performance. The emotional impact is profound, leaving audiences excited yet apprehensive about participating in future productions.

Deeply unsettling experienceProfound emotional impactMight be too intense for some

Synopsis

THE STORY: In this dystopic view of the near-future, sexual offenders have been removed from the traditional penal system and placed in a series of “gulag”-like camps created out of dying, rural towns all over America.

Laws have changed, and now offenders can be kept indefinitely (largely incommunicado), for as long as the state sees fit, no matter the relative seriousness of their crime.

Tuck, an inmate who's served his sentence for sleeping with a teenage girl, has hopes of being released.

Nye, an unrepentant serial child molester, scoffs at the possibility.

Things grow more ominous with visits from Tuck's sister and the camp's shadowy director—and suspicion grows that a secret psychological program may also be going on.

Press Reviews

"The play asks: Who has the power to say what is art and what is pornography? What is crime? What is punishment? These themes create a suspense that terrorizes the audience…It takes courage to write such a play. Lee Blessing is a brilliant writer. The trouble is, it is all too believable."
— Montserrat Review