Southern Gothic Novel: The Aberdeen, Mississippi Sex-Slave Incident

  • January 10 - 12, 2025

  • Marroney Theatre

    1025 North Olive Road
    Tucson, Arizona 85719
Ticket Price $15.00 Buy Tickets
Description

There are 5,218 people in Aberdeen, Mississippi. This is the tale of 17 of them.  And the men who caused all the trouble. Hapless librarian Viola Haygood falls in love (for the umpteenth time) to a dark and handsome stranger. His arrival causes a stir. Someone’s kidnapping Aberdeen’s young women. They’re at Big Otis’ Saloon one night and gone the next. Not so much as a by-your-leave. The town is getting nervous. Reporters descending like locusts. Lawyers locking and loading. No one is as they seem. Except Viola.  And she has no idea what’s going on.

Content Warning: 13+, Strong Language.

Artist Bio: Frank Blocker is a Florida-transplant via NYC, with a Gila County childhood, Midwestern upbringing and Southern coming-of-age.  His Americana plays include NY Drama Desk-nominated Southern Gothic…, The Wisconsinners, Stabilized Not Controlled, Good Jew, Suite Atlanta, HP Lovecraft’s Call of Cthulhu, Deadly Sugarplums and Eula Mae’s Beauty, Bait & Tackle. Favorite roles: Amadeus, Urinetown, Mystery of Edwin Drood and The Divine Sister. He’s visiting his brother in Cascabel while Fringing.  www.frankblocker.com

Date & Time

Jan 10 - 12, 2025

Venue Details

Marroney Theatre

1025 North Olive Road
Tucson, Arizona 85719 Marroney Theatre
Tucson Fringe Festival

The Tucson Fringe Festival is an unjuried, uncensored performing arts festival. Since 2011, following international fringe tenets, the festival provides artists with low-risk, low-cost opportunities to perform by using economies of scale to reduce venue rental costs and by taking only 20%, and sometimes 0%, of the artist’s earnings. Tucson Fringe also provides the Tucson arts community with avant-garde, non-traditional performing arts at low-cost ticket prices.

The festival does not curate or select the performances, maintaining an environment in which everyone and anyone can perform. This ensures that underrepresented artistic voices, such as people of color, the LGBT+ community, women, and other marginalized genders, are championed in our community.

The festival takes place in January every year across multiple venues in downtown Tucson. On average, every year the festival has 20+ shows with between 50-60 performances during the festival weekend.


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