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FASTER THAN A LOCOMOTIVE?

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Byline: Fred Crafts The Register-Guard

Theatrical productions awash with young dreams, foolhardy stunts, 20/20 hindsight, peace ploys, murderous matrons and classic show tunes will open on Lane County stages this week.

University Theatre

Two people try to outrun a 153-ton steam locomotive across a bridge in "The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek," opening Wednesday in a Second Season production.

OPENING THIS WEEK

The play, developed at the Humana Festival of New Plays at the Actor's Theatre of Louisville, is Naomi Wallace's poetic look at life in 1936, during the Great Depression.

"Wallace's weaving through time creates a shifting environment that allows us to question the individual in relation to society and the very nature of relationships," director J. Nick Dickert says. "This play ... hits the audience at full throttle."

Tara Rae Warner plays Pace Creagan and Connor Dudley plays Dalton Chance, the two who decide to test themselves against an iron horse even though the last person who did so failed. Others in the cast: Annie Harper Branson, Adam Leonard and Steve Wehemeier.

"The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek" will be presented at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and March 13-15 in the arena theater in Villard Hall, 1109 Old Campus Lane. Admission is $6 for the general public; $5 for senior citizens, UO faculty and staff and non-UO students;...