BUBBA returns for a command performance during the Hoboken Studio Tour!
BUBBA
By Michael Thomas Walker
WHEN: Sunday, November 18, @ 2 PM
WHERE: Monroe Theatrespace, 720 Monroe Street, 2nd Floor, Hoboken
TICKETS: PAY WHAT YOU WILL (pay as little or as much as you please!)
For reservations, call 201.683.7014
Inspired by true events, Bubba opens in the Deep South and through the use of slides, the audience is taken on a journey into the good-ole-days of Huntsville, Alabama. The play then episodically moves from one year to another as the audience learns about Walker's father, Joe Walker. A survivor of polio at age 2, the play explores his incarceration for embezzling $181,000 from the probate judge less than 9 months after marrying Walker's mother, his need to be well-liked, and his discovery that the polio has returned. Walker's strained relationship with his father is revealed through multiple characters: everything from a one-eyed womanizing party animal to Aunt B, the cancer-ridden, chain-smoking, keeper of the secrets. A combination of song, dance, and heart wrenching honesty, the play is my journey to examine his life and mysterious death.
About Michael Thomas Walker
Michael Thomas Walker was born and raised in Huntsville, AL. Growing up, he spent much of his time at his family's black angus cattle farm feeding the cows and bailing hay. After graduating from the University of Alabama, he moved to New York City where he performed in The Mystery of Edwin Drood at the Brooklyn Gallery Players under the revision of Rupert Holmes. From there he joined the national tour of Seussical playing the starring role of Horton. He went on to play Edna Turnblad in the national tour of Hairspray and repeat the role at The Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia under the direction of Charles Abbott. Michael is a graduate from Rutgers MFA Acting program, newly chaired by David Esbjornson.
