Stone Cold Dead Serious

The Ledbetters are just your average blue collar American family. While beached on the sofa, Dad is recovering from a herniated disc, inhaling pain pills and watching QVC. Wynne, the teenage computer wiz, is busy fixing hard drives and conquering his favorite video game, Tang Dynasty. While dropout sister Shaylee keeps sneaking back home to steal things to pawn for her life on the streets, Mom is busy working double shifts at the diner just to keep the bills paid. When Wynne reaches the finals of the Tang Dynasty Superchampionship (for a purse worth one million dollars!), he embarks on an odyssey to New York City to compete in a life-or-death tournament that pits him against a cast of freaks and threatens to bring the Ledbetters crashing to their post-nuclear knees.

Adam Rapp’s Stone Cold Dead Serious is a high-octane romp across the wastelands of America that tackles our culture’s obsession with television, the power of family, the quest for faith, and the cost of heroism. Carolyn Cantor directs for Edge Theater.