Crooked

Crooked
Spring 2016

By Catherine Trieschmann
A senior theater thesis directed by Kristin Kury
Common Room, Goodhart Hall 

Fourteen-year-old Laney arrives in Oxford, Mississippi with a twisted back, a mother in crisis and a burning desire to be writer. When she befriends Maribel Purdy, a fervent believer in the power of Jesus Christ to save her from the humiliations of high school, Laney embarks on a hilarious spiritual and sexual journey that challenges her mother's secular worldview and threatens to tear their fragile relationship apart.