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The Last Farm
By Don Fidler Directed by Sean Bonnette November 3, 4, 10, and 11 at 7:30PM November 5 and 12 at 2PM Click here to get tickets! |
CastZoe Schardan as Jess Shipley
Dalton Watson as Pitt Shipley Paul Holcomb as Austin Shipley Raquel Nethken as Carol Lee Shipley Thomas Lyall as Cam Shipley |
About the Play
The Last Farm takes place in a rural West Virginia farmhouse in the summer of 2014. What begins as a typical day on the farm turns into a bad dream when the news broadcasts that Tel Aviv has been destroyed by a nuclear explosion. While the family tries to piece together what is happening the power goes out and they discover that everyone has mysteriously vanished. Is there something sinister causing these disasters and is it closer to home than they think.
The Last Farm is a post apocalyptic supernatural family drama with mature themes.
The Last Farm is a post apocalyptic supernatural family drama with mature themes.
About the Author
Donald Carl Fidler, MD, FRCP-I
A native of the North Carolina Appalachian Mountains, DC Fidler has combined a career in academic psychiatry and cultural psychiatry with a lifetime of playwriting, acting, directing, composing music, and teaching creative writing and the dramatic arts.
He studied theatre, writing, medicine, and psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he served on the faculty. He later served on the faculty at West Virginia University and also practiced psychiatry in Australia and New Zealand.
He began his acting career in outdoor dramas, summer stock theatre, and local films and television at age ten. He has written scripts and composed music for over fifty medical educational videos and his plays have been produced in community theatres, at universities, and in professional theatres, often being used for raising awareness of mental health issues. His play Boogieban, won the 2018 Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Premier of a New Play and moved onward in 2019 to be produced in St. Louis, Chicago, and Off-Broadway in NYC.
He consulted and appeared in educational productions for HBO, ABC, and PBS and performed in stage plays including: Hope is the Thing with Feathers, Night of January 16th, Thieves’ Carnival, Blood Wedding, Our Town, A Life in the Theatre, and Fool for Love. DC Fidler is an active member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the Charlotte Writers’ Club.
Don wrote many plays that premiered at MT Pockets as well as acting and directing plays here. He has fond memories of MT Pockets and wishes the cast and crew to "break legs with The Last Farm and that he will be thinking of them.
A native of the North Carolina Appalachian Mountains, DC Fidler has combined a career in academic psychiatry and cultural psychiatry with a lifetime of playwriting, acting, directing, composing music, and teaching creative writing and the dramatic arts.
He studied theatre, writing, medicine, and psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he served on the faculty. He later served on the faculty at West Virginia University and also practiced psychiatry in Australia and New Zealand.
He began his acting career in outdoor dramas, summer stock theatre, and local films and television at age ten. He has written scripts and composed music for over fifty medical educational videos and his plays have been produced in community theatres, at universities, and in professional theatres, often being used for raising awareness of mental health issues. His play Boogieban, won the 2018 Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Premier of a New Play and moved onward in 2019 to be produced in St. Louis, Chicago, and Off-Broadway in NYC.
He consulted and appeared in educational productions for HBO, ABC, and PBS and performed in stage plays including: Hope is the Thing with Feathers, Night of January 16th, Thieves’ Carnival, Blood Wedding, Our Town, A Life in the Theatre, and Fool for Love. DC Fidler is an active member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the Charlotte Writers’ Club.
Don wrote many plays that premiered at MT Pockets as well as acting and directing plays here. He has fond memories of MT Pockets and wishes the cast and crew to "break legs with The Last Farm and that he will be thinking of them.
