An Adaptation of That King of the Hill Episode Where Peggy Falls Out of A Plane
Sterling Gates as “Robert”
photo by David Rauch
Rural Texas. Late 90s. Margaret Hill is in a full-body cast after a skydiving incident. Her father-in-law just welcomed a new baby with his much younger wife. Her son is in crisis. Her husband told her to jump. Now, they’re all in the same house.
A sitcom episode torn apart and reconstructed as a ‘high art’ new-play family drama, with eerie echos of its animated past.
“I have plummeted toothy and akimbo through the Texas sky. I have landed palm-up, Christ-like, in a place called Arlen. In a country called America...”
Development History:
Workshop - Brick Theater [2024] dir. Emma Richmond