“OPENING HANK WILLIAMS,” 2022 PREMIERE
HIGH SCHOOL PRODUCTION, G-RATED, COMEDY — Remember high school PE when you could not climb the rope that seemed at least a mile high? Set in 1966, “Climbing the No-Hope Rope” lets you relive the mortification when two nerdy senior boys from the mountains of Virginia find they must make it to the top in order to graduate.
HIGH SCHOOL PRODUCTION, G-RATED, COMEDY/DRAMA — A wisecracking elder of an Appalachian snake-handling church becomes a mentor for a serious-minded young woman with a troubled past who is trying to decide whether or not to take up serpents.
PG-13 RATED, COMEDY/DRAMA — A young man with Asperger’s (on the autism spectrum) overcomes shyness and self-doubt to ask a young woman (also with Asperger’s and also low in self-esteem) for a date. Both use index cards with suggested questions so they won’t clam up on their initial telephone conversation. Will they find romance or will they realize they’d rather be alone?
CHILDREN’s PLAY — G-RATED, COMEDY — Led by their prankster coach who sends his catcher on an errand to find a three and-two pitch, a ragtag team of 9-year-old baseball players (the Belcher Tire Emporium Cubs) comes together (more or less) in a season with a roster that includes a 52-pound boy with cystic fibrosis and the smartest child in the entire elementary school – a budding biologist – who asks if he can dissect a baseball.
A black civil rights volunteer finds himself in the same jail cell with a white racist in Jubilee in the Rear View Mirror, a comedy/drama about Freedom Summer (1964) in Greenwood, Mississippi.
Jan. 2, 1953. The hearse bearing the remains of hillbilly crooner Hank Williams stops at a service station in rural West Virginia. Hijinks ensue.
A series of vignettes on oddball characters Garret Mathews encountered in his early days on the Bluefield, W. Va., Telegraph newspaper.
A comedy about the ragamuffin players on the Evansville Otters, an independent-league team on the lowest rung of professional baseball.