UPDATE 12/15/19 - - - PURE Theatre in Charleston, SC has postponed the production of Welcome to Keene, NH until later in 2020. Details TBD. The information below is no longer accurate. The production with Strawdog Theatre in Chicago is continuing as scheduled.
WELCOME TO KEENE,
NEW HAMPSHIRE
BY BRIAN JAMES POLAK
DIRECTED BY SHARON GRACI
CO–WORLD PREMIERE WITH CHICAGO’S STRAWDOG THEATRE
JAN 10 – FEB 1 PureTheater.org
Boasting a dramatic structure mirroring that of Thorton Wilder’s Our Town, Welcome to Keene, NEW HAMPSHIRE advances Wilder’s original question, which asked us to consider what it means to be human, to ask a much more pertinent one: what does it mean to be human in the world today?