The Trustus Collection

<p>In this collection of six plays written by Jon Tuttle and performed at Columbia SC’s cutting edge Trutus Theatre over a 14 year period of time we trace not just the evolution of a playwright but that of a theatre and a culture as well. In his introduction Thorne Compton writes that “In Jon Tuttle’s world life is a confusing pile of colorful chips from a kaleidoscope that has long been smashed” and that “the fact that life is absurd and usually ends badly does not make it any less valuable …” From <em>The Hammerstone</em> which won the Trustus Playwright’s Festival in 1994 before it went on to be performed in 17 states to 2018’s evocative <em>Boy About Ten</em> Tuttle allows us to peek into the miracles and mundaneness of his characters many of whose lack of adherence to normalcy is the most normal thing about them.</p><p>Jon Tuttle is Professor of English Director of University Honors the Nellie Cooke Sparrow Writer-in-Residence a J. Loren Mason Distinguished Professor and an FMU Trustees Distinguished Scholar at Francis Marion University in Florence South Carolina.</p><p> </p>