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Dennis Gagomiros is an Atomic Farmgirl

Developer Dennis Gagomiros is performing in "Atomic Farmgirl" by C. Denby Swanson. Its another Drilling Company production - this one developed, conceived and directed with Brooke Brod.

An adaptation of a memoir by Teri Hein, it follows the growth of a farming community in Hanford, Washington during the "nuclear" age when many families were stricken with radiation related illness because of their proximity to nuclear testing.

It is an "Our Town" for 2007 when an Imperialistic minded culture of America has begun to look back at where our nation has come from and who is owed.

An epic play about community and the family, Teri Hein's story is the story of a woman who has grown up in the heartland who has become separated from her origins and is searching for meaning and belonging. She has not met and married the high school farm boy that Dolores has. She has been sophisticated by modern society, she is childless and she is haunted by the ghost of the land and people she is detached from.

This is a play about the erosion of family by a more and more corporate centered culture. The heart of the play is centered around Dolores and her struggle to speak out - to make a difference. What will she do in the face of the dissolution of things we believe in - put our heads in the sand and wait for it to get worse or take action and speak out.

This is a play about activism and our choice to be active in changing our world for the better or not.

It is a play about inheritance, about who has inherited what from whom, it is a play about transformation - how a community/family transforms.

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