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‘Holler Me Home' By Dean PolingThe Valdosta Daily Times Given her credentials with the comic “Scrubs,” some may expect “Holler Me Home” to be a comedy. It isn’t.
There are humorous moments, Wheeler says, but Fordham describes the play as a drama that treats the swampers as people not the stereotypical rural folks of “Lil Abner” or “The Beverly Hillbillies.” Fordham was careful in how she characterized the swampers, since one of her grandmothers had been a swamper. She notes that actors should not portray “Holler Me Home’s” swampers as objects of ridicule. Since late last week, she has been able to see how the VSU Theatre student cast portrays her characters. She returned to Valdosta last Thursday and has been attending rehearsals. Opening night is Thursday. Following the Friday and Saturday night performances, Fordham will take questions and comments from the audiences. She may even ask them a few questions. She wants feedback. What local audiences will see is both a finished play as well as a work in progress. The VSU Theatre production is “Holler Me Home’s” first step, with the next step coming in March when VSU Theatre takes the play to a Dallas-area theatre festival. Watching rehearsals, Fordham has already seen things she plans to re-write. Things she will change as the play evolves into a show that will hopefully continue finding new venues and more audiences. “I believe this is a play that will have a life of its own on stages all over,” Wheeler says. In addition to further developing her play, Fordham’s next steps depend on the aftermath of the writer’s strike. Though she’s been on strike, she can work on plays because they fall under the Dramatists Guild of America. But she isn’t certain of “Scrubs’” fate. It was the series’ last season so Fordham doesn’t know if the final episodes or a finale episode will be written or produced. Before the strike, she had a development deal for a series pilot with NBC. She may not know if that deal remains until the smoke clears from the strike. Until then, Debra Fordham will enjoy a few more days in her Southern home before returning home to L.A. THE CAST: Drew Giles, Kyle Tutton, Raoul Barnick, Rick Patrick, Heather Cross, Lindsey Mouchet, Phillip Jones. DIRECTION, PRODUCTION: Dr. Randy Wheeler, director; Rich Haptonstall, scenic, lighting design; LeVonne Lindsay, costume design; Marty Lynch, technical director; Deborah Morgan, dramaturg; Katie Cathell, production stage manager; Thomas Poje, assistant stage manager. WORLD PREMIERE 
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