Actors, 2017

The Last Train to Nibroc by Arlene Hutton was performed at Santa Barbara's Center Stage Theater, April 13-15, 2017.  Directed by Nita Davanzo and starring Justin Davanzo and Ming Lauren Holden, the play begins on a cross-country train headed east in 1940.  A young serviceman - recently discharged after being diagnosed with epilepsy, but still wearing his uniform - is chatting up a traveling small town girl from Kentucky, recently disappointed in love.  It's a mating dance of two young people from a change-resistant town, both buffeted by the war and the shifting face of America, particularly as it relates to expectations for women.