Monday, February 2, 2015

Bruised Love: Two Red Shuttleworth Free Verse Plays




Bruised Love

Two Free Verse Plays 
of the Contemporary American West

(They Dream Ghost Riders
and
Heart 'n Saddle Saloon)

by

Red Shuttleworth


Bruised Love was co-produced on September 19, 1992 in Fallon, Nevada, by the Theatre Arts Department of University of Nevada, Las Vegas and by the Churchill Arts Council.  Both plays were directed by Michael Lugering.  This traveling production of Bruised Love was sponsored in part by the Nevada State Council on the Arts and the Sierra Arts Foundation.  One of the plays, They Dream Ghost Riders, was first produced by UNLV in 1989 when it was directed by Cathy Hurst.

They Dream Ghost Riders (cast of four women and four men), set in Northern Nebraska where farmland merges into ranch land, is a hardscrabble set of stories about love, the family farm crisis, and survival.  The Fallon 1992 cast of They Dream Ghost Riders featured:

              Helene Elin Pobst.............................Caroline 
              Charlie Paddock...............................Archer
              Nicole Sottile....................................Reata
              Josh Mussleman................................Hale
              Toni Loppnow...................................Buffy
               Larry Narlock...................................Koop
               Melissa Gilbert.................................Gwen
               Scott Twilligear................................Owen


Toni Loppnow
(Buffy in They Dream Ghost Riders)

They Dream Ghost Riders, Ensemble:
Scott Twilligear, Melissa Gilbert, Toni Loppnow, Charlie Paddock,
Helene Elin Pobst, Larry Narlock, Josh Mussleman, and Nicole Sottile



Heart 'n Saddle Saloon (cast of two women and two men) carries the pain of cowtown love and betrayal... the hope of getting it all back together again.  The Fallon cast featured:

                Nicole Sottile..................................Roxie
                Scott Twilligear...............................Oates
                Toni Loppnow.................................Marilena
                 Josh Mussleman..............................Patrick


Toni Loppnow and Scott Twilligear
in Heart 'n Saddle Saloon


Heart 'n Saddle Saloon cast:
Scott Twilligear, Nicole Sottile, Toni Loppnow, and Josh Mussleman


Nicole Sottlie
(Roxie in Heart 'n Saddle Saloon)



 The scripts for the two verse plays of Bruised Love are no longer available.

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