{"product_id":"the-trustus-collection-9781942081203","title":"The Trustus Collection","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Trustus Collection: Six Plays by Jon Tuttle\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together six plays written by Jon Tuttle and performed at Columbia, South Carolina's Trustus Theatre over a 14-year period. The anthology traces the evolution of a playwright, a theater company, and a cultural movement in American regional theater.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eFeatured Plays\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection spans from \u003cem\u003eThe Hammerstone\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Trustus Playwright's Festival in 1994, which went on to be performed in 17 states across the country, to the 2018 production \u003cem\u003eBoy About Ten\u003c\/em\u003e. Each play offers insight into characters whose unconventional lives reflect the absurdity and value of human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Thorne Compton notes in his introduction, \"In Jon Tuttle's world life is a confusing pile of colorful chips from a kaleidoscope that has long been smashed,\" and \"the fact that life is absurd and usually ends badly does not make it any less valuable.\" These plays examine both the miracles and mundaneness of characters who defy normalcy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout Jon Tuttle\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJon Tuttle is Professor of English, Director of University Honors, the Nellie Cooke Sparrow Writer-in-Residence, a J. Loren Mason Distinguished Professor, and an FMU Trustees Distinguished Scholar at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis theatrical works have earned recognition throughout the American theater community. Beyond this collection, his plays include \u003cem\u003eA Fish Story\u003c\/em\u003e (Samuel French, Inc., 2008), \u003cem\u003eTerminal Café\u003c\/em\u003e (Dramatists Play Service, 1996), and one-act plays \u003cem\u003eThe White Problem\u003c\/em\u003e (Playscripts Inc., 2006), \u003cem\u003eSonata for Armadillos\u003c\/em\u003e (Playscripts Inc., 2002), and \u003cem\u003eOne Another\u003c\/em\u003e (with Cindy Turner, Smith \u0026amp; Kraus, 2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTuttle has received the South Carolina Theater Association's Founders Award, a Porter-Fleming Award, and a Pushcart Prize nomination for fiction. He has served on the boards of the South Carolina Academy of Authors and Florence Regional Arts Alliance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eFor Theater Collections\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis anthology serves as both a retrospective of one playwright's development and a document of contemporary American playwriting in the Southeast. The collection offers material for theater companies, drama students, and readers interested in regional theater movements and alternative theatrical voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Muddy Ford Press LLC in March 2019, this paperback edition preserves 14 years of theatrical work from one of South Carolina's most recognized playwrights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTuttle, Jon:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jon Tuttle is Professor of English, Director of University Honors, the Nellie Cooke Sparrow Writer-in-Residence, a J. Lorin Mason Distinguished Professor, and an FMU Trustees Research Scholar at Francis Marion University in Florence, SC. He has won the South Carolina Theater Association's Founders Award, a Porter-Fleming Award and Pushcart Prize nomination for fiction, and fellowships from the South Carolina Academy of Authors and Florence Regional Arts Alliance, on whose boards he has served. His other plays include A Fish Story (Samuel French, Inc., 2008), Terminal Café (Dramatists Play Service, 1996), and one-act plays The White Problem (Playscripts Inc., 2006), Sonata for Armadillos (Playscripts Inc., 2002) and One Another (with Cindy Turner, Smith \u0026amp; Kraus, 2018). He also edited David Kranes: Selected Plays (Level 4, 2011) and is currently editing South Carolina Onstage, a collection of plays by South Carolina playwrights from the post-colonial period to the present. He and his wife Cheryl Roberts Tuttle have three children, Staci, Jill and Josh, and two grandsons, Noah and Sullivan.","brand":"Muddy Ford Press LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50493264658706,"sku":"9781942081203","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_be6c51d4-3fca-40c2-a7d6-b52b5ad8efd0.jpg?v=1730640844","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-trustus-collection-9781942081203","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}