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There are 5,218 people living in Aberdeen, Mississippi. This is the
story of 17 of them. And. The men that caused all of the trouble.
2009's Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Solo
Performance, this play was the critical darling of the season for
its revelation in storytelling. The whole thing started when Viola
Haygood, the Assistant Librarian at the Charles B. Evans Memorial
Library, fell in love for the umpteenth time. This one was new in
town. He was tall. He was dark. He was handsome. And he smelled
really good. It was the dark coincidence of his arrival that caused
the locals to comment. Someone was kidnapping Aberdeen's young
women. They were eating cheese nachos at Big Otis's Saloon one
night and gone the next. Not so much as a by-your-leave. The town
was getting nervous. They were locking the stately front entries of
their antebellum homes and the aluminum screen doors of their
double-wide trailers. For the first time. Ever. They would have
called in the FBI but they didn't have to, as that particular
organization was proud to boast a national office on Aberdeen's
Main Street that runs along the scenic banks of the Tombigbee
River. This was a town in an uproar. Dirty deeds being done dirt
cheap. Women being snapped up and carted off to who knows where.
FBI running up and down the streets like they knew which way was
up. Reporters descending like locusts. Lawyers locking and loading.
It's hard to believe that one person portrayed all of this on stage
without costume or set pieces. This is the book of a play-based on
a book that was never written-that feels like a movie
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