Preview
Production Season
Spring 2010
Production Staff
Written by Steve Timm. Directed by Ron Dye
Recommended Citation
Theatre, DePauw, "Polvadera" (2010). Past DePauw Theatre Seasons. 25, Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University.
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/commtheatre_past/25
Keywords
undergraduate theatre
Play Summary
During the Great Depression a young woman’s hope to escape the rural Midwest for the big city is compromised when she makes a gruesome discovery in a neighbor’s field. Haunted by the discovery and by her ability to witch water, she instead seeks refuge in the canyon country of southeastern Utah. But both her past and water are relentless in pursuing her. Thirty‑five years later she’s forced to return to the same field where she makes yet another terrible discovery. In this new play, Professor Timm shrewdly explores the impact of polvadera, or ‘the dust we leave behind.”