'Welcome to Yuba City': A short clip featuring Pig Iron Theatre company
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Channel: WHYY · 2011 · News & Politics
This scene featuring Geoff Sobelle (old man), Alex Torra (son), and Hinako Argo (waitress) comes from Pig Iron's 2009 piece, "Welcome to Yuba City," a series of vignettes loosely connected in a desert diner. Pig Iron develops material in an ensemble process wherein the play is created out of what the cast and crew bring to the table (rather than the alternative, wherein a playwright and a director tell everybody what to say and do). The ensemble tends to favor action over words.
