'Williamson, WV, is in the heart of Hatfield-McCoy history, but the conflict driving apart a family in Madison Fiedler’s Spay, now in a world premiere at Rivendell under Georgette Verdin’s direction, is rooted in opioids, not moonshine.' | kerryreid
Williamson, West Virginia, is in the heart of Hatfield-McCoy history, but the conflict driving apart a family in Madison Fiedler’s, now in a world premiere at Rivendell under Georgette Verdin’s direction, is rooted in opioids, not moonshine. Kindergarten teacher Harper has just brought home her half-sister Noah from the hospital, where she nearly died after OD’ing at a school baseball game.
Staged on a comfortably cluttered and intimate set designed by Lindsay Mummert, Fiedler’s play largely succeeds at creating a framework for two women’s domestic conflicts arising from a larger national and generational problem that nobody seems to know how to address successfully. This makes it a little easier to believe that Mallen’s Aubrey and her offer could find a toehold in Harper’s house. Fiedler’s script and Verdin’s cast avoid invokingstereotypes.
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