Wilson

by Lauren Holmes

Wilson is about a a guy named Wilson who runs a campground in the Mojave desert and fancies himself an expert UFOlogist. His life has been turned upside down by COVID— and he has some interesting thoughts about that he'd like to share with you. Guests have all canceled their vacations, except Penny, a young woman just dumped by her girlfriend, waiting out the pandemic in her tent, and freeloading off of him...

Wilson is about a a guy named Wilson who runs a campground in the Mojave desert and fancies himself an expert UFOlogist. His life has been turned upside down by COVID— and he has some interesting thoughts about that he'd like to share with you. Guests have all canceled their vacations, except Penny, a young woman just dumped by her girlfriend, waiting out the pandemic in her tent, and freeloading off of him. This suits him just fine until a new aerospace company buys the land right out from under the campground, threatening his livelihood and his sanity. The play deals with the history of land use in California, the ways ideas spread, and the types of people who escape to the desert. It ultimately asks what is scarier: alien abductions, or the inescapable powers of the market?

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