Up on the hill.

‘All, all are sleeping on the hill.’

‘Always amuse yourself and challenge your audience.’

This production was directed by Tom Jones and was a real work of love for the material. A theatrical version of Spoon River Anthology had appeared on Broadway in 1963. But Tom wanted to create a new adaptation from the huge roster of characters that Masters had written. Set in a cemetery, the former residents of a small town speak from beyond the grave. They tell of their hopes and ambitions and of their bitter, unrealized lives. The realistic poems proved controversial when they were first published and we found them extremely fulfilling. The pieces were fast and fluid and the company had a blast changing characters every few minutes. They were funny, rude, truthful, and touching. Above all, they were real human beings… not some fiction.