Fallout
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What would you do if you discovered that you had killed 100,000 people?
After Major Eatherly took part in the bombing of Hiroshima, he refused to march in the hero’s parade, or accept a hero’s pension. Desperate to prove he was not a hero, he started holding up banks and forging checks in an effort to send money to the children of Hiroshima. His exploits made him world-famous, and he stirred up every shade of opinion, from Colonel Tibbets who called him a traitor, to Gunther Anders who thought madness was the only sane reaction.
This play follows Eatherly’s wild ride from ace World War 2 pilot to inmate of a maximum-security mental hospital and witness of present-day U.S. defense policy. It is both urgent and relevant, as the world hovers dangerously once more on the brink of nuclear war…
Cast
Mark A. Keeton* (NYC)…………Claude “Buck” Eatherly
Doug Cockle (LONDON)…………….Joe Eatherly
Charles Dumas………….Judge
Roxy Arrojo (NYC)………………Concetta
Mike Waldhier……………Paul Tibbets
Mia Cavener……………..Hideko/ensemble
Rick Gilmore……………..Gunter Anders
Carrie Marcinkevage……Dr. Frank
Jeff Buterbaugh………….Nate/ensemble
James J Ruth………………”Baldy” Baldasaro/ensemble
Jared Kehler……………..Jack Bivans/ensemble
Lyn J. Freymiller……………Senator Ralph Yarborough/ensemble
Paul Marcinkevage, Evan Marcinkevage, Laura Waldhier…………..Ensemble
and some special guests!
About the Author
Mary Gage has lived in Britain, Australia and the United States. She trained as a journalist for The Times in London before becoming a playwright in Australia. Her plays have been performed in every Australian state. Two were published, and one was put on the New South Wales school leaving syllabus. She also won Western Australia’s 150th anniversary playwriting competition.
Since 1987, she has worked as a professor and administrator at the Pennsylvania State University. In her spare time, she continued to write, and her first American play resulted from a summer fellowship at the Alden B Dow Creativity Centre in Michigan. It had two productions in Manhattan and several of her Australian plays have also been performed in NYC, Washington D.C. and State College PA. (Full details at www.marygage.net)