Leaving Iowa
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May 7-23, 2027
Don Browning, returns home and decides to finally take his father's ashes to his childhood home, as requested. But when Don discovers Grandma's house is now a grocery store, he begins traveling across Iowa searching for a proper resting place for his father. This father-and-son road trip shifts smoothly from present day to Don's memories of the annual, torturous vacations of his childhood. Don's existential journey leads him to reconcile his past and present at the center of the United States. Leaving Iowa is a postcard to anyone who has ever found themself driving alone on a road, revisiting fond memories of their youth.
"...You don't have to be the child of a small-town Iowa couple living in the midst of hog farms and cornfields to identify with everything about Leaving Iowa, the simultaneously hilarious and touching play."
"...And if you have EVER taken a family vacation you WILL find something to relate to in this well-written script."