The Jacksonian

Pulitzer prize winning playwright Beth Henley’s eerie new play The Jacksonian transports audiences to Jackson, Mississippi, 1964. When his wife kicks him out, respectable dentist Bill Perch moves into the unsettling world of the seedy Jacksonian Motel. There, his downward spiral is punctuated by encounters with his teenage daughter, a gold-digging motel employee, a treacherous bartender and Perch’s now-estranged wife. Revolving around the night of a murder, >The Jacksonian, brims with suspense and dark humor as thesubversive becomes commonplace and the passage of time becomes hauntingly unpredictable.