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Wigfield
The Can-Do Town That Just May Not
Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, and Stephen Colbert
Performed by the authors
A hilarious satire of a town in jeopardy and the earnest "reporter" who hopes to save it—and his own just-hatched career as a writer. Brilliantly told by three of today's hottest young comedy stars.
Russell Hokes was recently fired from his job painting center lines on interstates and is now free to pursue his dream of becoming a writer. Instead of drawing long white lines on asphalt, he'll draw much shorter ones on paper, with loops and curls. Having told his clueless publisher he wants to write about the quiet dignity of the American Small Town, Hokes hits the road for Wigfield.
Wigfield is a town in danger. A bucolic hideaway built directly in front of a massive dam, it will soon be flooded when the dam is demolished by the state government to restore the salmon run. The only hope for the neither quiet nor dignified town is a self-righteous, self-aggrandizing, self-involved so-called "journalist": Hokes.
As the story unfolds, told through a series of interviews with the town's colorful residents, including an elderly couple in their late thirties and the manager of Wigfield's premier strip club, Hokes seeks desperately to find anything about Wigfield worth documenting—or saving. Wigfield is a razor-sharp satire by three major talents.
Unabridged; 4¾ hours on 4 CDs
ISBN 1-56511-772-7 (CD)
Amy Sedaris is one half of the "Talent Family." The other half is best-selling author and National Public Radio humorist David Sedaris. The two have collaborated on eight plays including the Obie Award-winning One Woman Shoe. They recently received a Special Citation from Drama Desk Awards for the "unique quality of their work." Amy has a recurring rule on HBO's Sex in the City, and created and starred in the Comedy Central Series Strangers with Candy with Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert.
Paul Dinello has appeared in several films including Plump Fiction, Straight Talk, the NBC television movie The Howard Beach Story, and Paramount Television's The Untouchables. He has also frequented the New York stage, most notably in Stitches at the LaMama Theater. He created and starred in Comedy Central's Strangers with Candy with Amy Sedaris and Stephen Colbert.
Stephen Colbert is the comedic genius behind and in front of The Colbert Report. Stephen created and starred in Comedy Central's Strangers with Candy with Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello.
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