Production History

Mary Sue Price’s The Back Hills Trilogy received its world premiere during Season 3 (1986–1987) at CST’s 840 Robert S. Kerr Avenue theatre. The three one-act plays were presented together as one production. In his original program notes, Granville Burgess described the intensive process of rewriting, restructuring, and rehearsing all three plays in eighteen days.

CST Connections

Vikki Simer later played Chris Gorman in both CST productions of Rumors (1992 and 1998), Kathleen in Park Your Car in Harvard Yard (1995), and Flo Owens in Picnic (2007).
Chris Crane, credited here as assistant stage manager, later played the Man in the Auditorium in Rehearsal for Murder (1999) and Charles Norton in Romance in D (2003).
Don Richard combined acting with set design and construction, while Granville Burgess’s program notes document CST’s involvement in developing new work.

Press and Photography

“‘Back Hills Trilogy’ to Debut at City Theater” — The Oklahoman, April 17, 1987, contemporary opening-day coverage.

Acknowledgments

Special thanks: Richard Buchanan, CPA; Chadwick Interiors; John Chadwick; Thompson Book Supply; Lowell Thompson; E.H. Public Relations; Edelgard E. Hatfield; EMSCO Electrical Suppliers; Air Control Service.

THEATRE UP CLOSE & PERSONAL

Jonathan Beck Reed