About the Show

In this new work, a hotel’s non-human inhabitants and the surrounding landscape overtake the narrative, as the forgotten geological, ecological, and indigenous histories of the Great Plains come into focus.

An official and unofficial fellow drink at the bar. A lone child plays the arcade. The swimming pool licks itself. Front desk checks in. A coyote roams the premises. And a glacier waits for a passing elder. Set in a Holiday Inn Holidome – a brand of the franchise that proliferated the United States in the 1970’s & 80’s as a resort-like setting for the middle class – and in the middlest part of the country, where quiet and subtle magic occur, a family checks in to escape their home, six blocks away.

Critic Reviews (1)

"A super-odd playlet about a Kansas Holidome that reaches consciousness and begins to observe its denizens. Richard Thieriot is purely wonderful as an oilfield lobbyist giving a sweaty presentation about coyote eradication, and the play's geologic time scale-a glacier slowly comes and carries the hotel complex away-strikes a interesting combined note of despair and non-anthropocentric hope."
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