Terre Haute | |
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Written by | Edmund White |
Date premiered | 2006 |
Place premiered |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Edinburgh, Scotland |
Original language | English |
Terre Haute is a 2006 play by the American writer Edmund White. [1]
It deals with a fictional encounter between the 1995 Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and a character similar to author Gore Vidal in the days prior to the former's 2001 execution inside a prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
The play made its stage première as part of the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, and transferred to Trafalgar Studios, a West End theatre located London, England, in May 2007. [1] The U.S. premiere was in San Francisco in 2007. [2] Its New York City, New York, début was in 2009, at the 59E59 Theaters, an off-Broadway theatre complex. [1]