February 20, 2020, Thursday - Midwest Premiere of Alligator Summer: A Southern Gothic Atrocity at The Southern Theater

Location: The Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Ave S

Midwest Premiere of Alligator Summer: A Southern Gothic Atrocity

Alligator Summer is the memory play of young Antietam Julep coming of age during a reptilian rapture in 1940s Louisiana. Sequestered with his family, and the neighbors who have well-outstayed their welcome, Antietam discovers that the real blood-thirsty beasts are not the ones that lurk below. With wit, gore, sentiment, idiocy, archetypes, accents, and gators, Alligator Summer is the guiltiest of pleasures for the refined sadist in all of us.

“Alligator Summer draws from dark comedy, parody, melodrama, lyrical speeches, and the absurd. It most closely resembles a Martin McDonagh play set in Tennessee Williams’ scrapbook. Through changes in style and tone, playwright Dylan Lamb’s language provides a throughline. Lamb’s words are in turn delicious and hilarious; he crafts an astute play with numerous moments of poignancy and hilarity.”
- Theater Is Easy

Featuring: Gary David Keast, Roberta Gibbons, Nora Ellen Targonski-O'Brien Jacob Mobley, Marissa Janelle Ward, Brighid Burkhalter, and Joey Hamburger

February 20th-22nd at 7:30pm
February 22nd and 23rd at 2pm

Tickets on-sale now https://www.southerntheater.org/shows/alligator-summer-1