Cementville
Encyclopedia
Cementville is a 1991 dark comedy play
written by Jane Martin
, a Pulitzer
-nominated author and premiered at the 1991 Humana Festival of New American Plays. The work has also been republished in several collections of modern American plays.
Set in a dingy arena locker room in a Tennessee
rust town, the story follows a collection of run-down female wrestlers and their blow-hard manager as they try to put on a card of matches and everything goes wrong.
.
The loose-moralled Dani parades in and is also amazed at how gross the room is. She rants about their typical treatment and money issues. Netty and Angelessa come in next. Motherly Netty is rattling on about how good their dinner was, while the muscular Angelessa stays quiet. Nola finally gets the courage to talk the women about the wrestling business. Dani runs down the line up for tonight’s card, revealing that all of them will actually be playing several parts ,and the Cavalcade of Stars has only about 6 stars in it.
Tiger sends Nola on a beer
run for them while they get settled in. Big Man enters to run down the lineup. His brother Eddie had to be taken to the hospital the night before. The best guess is a hooker assaulted him. Dani complains about the lack of pay. Big Man slaps her, explaining that he needs her attention and she’s not being respectful about Eddie’s injury. He then tells them since Eddie’s out, the cruiserweight
title match is off. Angelessa offers to do a mixed match. But despite her being a former Olympian, Big Man shoots it down. “No one’s gonna’ buy a black chick icing the cruiserweight contender.”
He tells them that he’s called in The Knockout Sisters, a formerly banned-from-wrestling-for-life tag-team / borderline porn
act, who happen to live not too far away. The women aren’t very happy, knowing that Big Man will be spending part of their ticket money for the extra wrestlers.
As the ladies dress, they ponder over Eddie’s fate. Lessa says some hooker bit his dick off. The ladies are shocked and amused at the same time, but not sure to believe her. Angelessa says she helped patch him up until the ambulance arrived, using a tourniquet of dental floss. Suddenly, there’s a thump from the broom closet. Angelessa opens the door and finds Dwayne hiding. He pleads for autographs but after they, including Nola, have signed his book, he starts preaching at them for being sinful whores. Angelessa grabs him and throws him out, but not before he can grab Tiger by her sore ribs, leaving her in even more pain.
Before bell time, Big Man introduces Mother Crocker and her girls, Dolly and Dottie. It's obvious Mother’s girls know little about actual wrestling; their looks and Mother's mouth and influence have gotten them this far.
Dani and Tiger do the first match (Bloody Mary vs. Tarzana, Queen of the Jungle). It doesn’t go very well and Tiger is in real pain. Dani cut the match short to protect her. Angelessa and Netty are up next (as Black Lightning vs. Pajama Mama). When some guy in the crowd throws something at Lessa. She doesn’t take it lying down, climbing out and going after him. Netty and Lessa return the locker room. Big Man knows they've made a mistake.
Not long after, Bobbie Jack “One-Eye” Deneauve shows up at the locker room. He tells Big Man and Mother that he drove all the way from Kentucky to see some good ol’ fashioned ass-whuppin’ blood, sex and violence and so far the show is a no-show. Mother promises him better matches or he can have one of the girls.
Lessa gets dressed as “Olympia” for her next match with Tiger. Mother steps in saying that she can’t go out there and play the face
(good girl) since she’s black and the crowd is full of rednecks. Mother demands Big Man do something even if he has to send some wrestlers out there nude. During the argument, Dolly pulls out a 9mm pistol to break it up. Mother threatens to pull out, but Big Man demands they had an agreement. He grabs the girls’ bag and finds what he knew he would: a bag of powder. Trying to gain the upper hand, he threatens to send the girls to jail. Dolly points the gun on him. A moment later, Big Man is choking after being forced to taste the contents; beach sand, a memento of her late husband.
Mother convinces Dani to do a lingerie match for one hundred dollars. Nola volunteers to wrestle her. Mother quizzes Nola on her wrestling knowledge, and Nola is more than ready with the answers. Dani coaches Nola as they run out.
Willie ‘Kid’ Cayman, a former boxer, introduces himself. He’s retired now; traveling the country on a journey to visit all the places he ever fought. He merely wants to look at the old room. Mother finishes readying her girls for the main event. Angelessa volunteers to go back out, but Mother cuts her off. Mother says that in Tennessee, the trash only want to see who they like in matches. That means who she says. Dottie says that means Lessa is just a ‘nigger’. Outraged, Lessa has to be held back from Dottie.
Dani and Nola return triumphant. The match not only went well, but they got tips from the crowd after the fight. The big tag-team match is finally ready to go. Dani and Nola (as Ninjas) will job
a match (take a dive) for the Knockout Sisters.
Angelessa snaps before the tag match even starts. She locks Nola in the broom closet, and puts on Nola’s Ninja costume. Before she can leave, Eddie arrives. He has come back for Lessa, since it was she who injured him the night before. Netty and Tiger try and pull him off as Angelessa but, Kid steps in and stops Eddie with a well-placed knee. Eddie collapses and crushes Tiger’s cat carrier, her little dog still inside. Lessa steps in for Nola and wipes the floor with both of the Knockouts and Mother. The crowd boils into a riot. Dottie flees to the locker room, bleeding. Netty and Tiger tend to her. She says her sister was lost, swept up into the crowd. Angelessa re-enters the locker room, with Mother in a headlock. Despite Mother’s bribe offers for her to stop, Lessa cold cocks her. Then, she sets about trashing the room.
Big Man storms in from the fray, furious at Angelessa for what she’s done. Mother and Dottie make a run for it. Lessa and Big Man brawl, but he eventually beats her down. Willie grabs Dolly’s pistol and shoots Big Man in the leg to stop him. Dani, Nola, Netty and Anglessa run out the back to Willie’s car. He stops to have a smoke with the injured Big Man. The raging crowd is now at the door. Willie calmly moves a locker set aside to reveal an old service tunnel leading out. As he shuffles down the corridor, Willie talks of the old days and how the fight game has changed, “Those were different times, then. Different times.”
Big Man and Eddie start to come to. The mob outside is starting to bash down the old wooden door. Big Man asks his injured brother, “How much you got left?” just as the enraged crowd pours in.
Dwayne Pardee - Local character and autograph hound. Dwayne stalks any celebrities or near-celebrities that happen to come to Cementville. He keeps a large signature book that he says he plans to put into a time capsule for future generations. Dwayne, however, has some apparent mental issues combined from religious feverence and his idolizing of popular figures. That zeal can turn ugly.
Tiger - A wrestling ring veteran and ex-con. Tiger (no other name known) has managed to survive in the wrestling business mostly due to her physical stature and ability to play a good heel (bad girl). Tiger, however, has been working so long that she almost constantly needs to numb her aching body with alcohol or drugs. Tiger has little to care about, since she feels she has no other future, but she does take care of her little dog (no name given) and will back up her friends when push comes to shove - if only her ribs weren't so sore.
Nola - Local fangirl and wrestling wanna'be. Nola barely got through high school and so far only managed to work part-time or temp jobs at a local gas station and local factories, but she's always dreamed of being a big-time wrestling star. She wrestles with her bigger cousin, Jadine, for practice and can beat her in 'straight' wrestling. Nola has taught herself a lot of pro style moves but the psychology and drama of the ring seem to have escaped her and she has NO knowledge has the wrestling business really works.
Dani Malowski - The wrestling troupe's diva, Dani is actually a trained and talented wrestler. But, she's overworked and underpaid since signing with Big Man's outfit. If it wasn't for her mouth and attitude, she might have actually made the big-time. Dani has no issue confronting her bosses, but at the same time she lets herself be abused and seeks comfort in the strange men she meets on the road. Dani often has to portray several characters in the same show, working more than one match to make up for the low talent pool in the company.
Angelessa or Lessa - A former Olympian (shot putter) and college athlete, Lessa could never parlay her talents into a paying job. Probably hoping like W.W.E. and T.N.A. superstar Kurt Angle
, she thought she could transition into wrestling. The problem for her is that she has the body and ability, but lacks the mental attitude for the wrestling game. She is a very proud young woman and finds it difficult to accept that she's merely entertainment now and must occasionally lose, not an actual competitor. She also has to deal with being the only African-American in the troupe and the attitude of rural fans to her as bad girl Black Lightning.
Netty - The middle-age Alabama matron of the mats has done about every low-paying job out there. But, after trying her hand at working the ring, she's found she actually enjoys the job. Netty is a rose-colored glasses optimist, mostly due to the fact that she feels she has nothing else but the wrestling business now. She deals with the pain, the low pay and the low environments, since it gives her the chance to travel and be among the other women. Netty is bi-sexual, though she seems to prefer younger girls and has no qualms about it. Her demeanor, however, is that of a very genteel Southern gal who is just as pleased as punch to do anything asked of her.
Big Man Vag - Raised in the fight world, Big Man started out as gopher and coffee boy in Joe Louis' Boxing Gym. He knows all about the fight game, having been involved in both boxing and wrestling but never could excel at either. His brother Eddie Vag did manage to elevate himself in the wrestling world and Big rode his coattails. As Eddie's career waned, Big Man formed a wrestling troupe and tour around him, being the company's booker (sets the fights and dates) and promoter. Big Mag adopted the ring persona of Irish Bob to be the foil to Eddie Stosha 'The Wild Man' Oronofsky. Outside the ring, Big is only somewhat capable of running his company and cannot handle real stress. He is also a recovering alcoholic.
Mother Crocker - Formerly an owner of a small chain of car garages, Mother saw the explosion of pro wrestling on Pay Per View as a possible money-maker for her two young daughters (Dolly and Dottie) by turning them into the Knockout Sisters tag team. Giving the girls only some basic pro wrestling training, Mother pushed them onto every federation on their rise to stardom; which the girls did mostly on their backs in hotel rooms. She is a very formidable middle-aged woman, who smokes small cigars as she bulldozes her girls way to the top. Sadly, their run-in with the law was a setback to her long-term goal of getting the Knockouts into movies.
Dolly Crocker - One half the Knockout Sisters, the scary half. The petite blonde may be a borderline sociopath, and has no compunction about threatening violence on those that get in her way. Like her sister, she has only passing wrestling skills in the ring; letting her looks and sexual favors move her career onwards.
Dottie Crocker - Dottie looks more like a fitness model, being just under six feet tall with a lithe figure. She imagines herself as some kind of deep spiritual person, but she's as shallow as her kinfolk. She has no issue using sex to get what she wants, since she doesn't have any other real talent or skill.
Bobbie Jack 'One-Eye' Deanavue - A warehouse worker from Lecher County, Kentucky. Bobbie Jack is a simple man. He works hard and he wants to play hard, but he is very critical if he's paying two-bits to see a show. He wants what he pays for and he has no issue using his favorite knife to get it.
Ms. Harmon - Local girl and usherette at the Cementville Sportsdrome. Just out of her teens, Ms. Harmon had a two-week personnel training course and is more used to working regular sporting events and truck shows. She's not quite ready for the chaos that the Vixens of Violence Tour is bringing into her arena.
Willie 'Kid' Cayman - Former middleweight boxer, long retired. Kid did the smart thing when he was still in the fight game, he saved his money and bought property in Florida. In his later years, he got a car and took to the road. He now travels to all the arenas he ever fought in and recalls the glory days of his youth. Kid is very spry older black man, managing to keep his very acute mental faculties, even after years of boxing. He comes across as a sweet old guy with a sharp memory, but he can still deal out the pain if the situation calls.
Eddie Vag - Former W.W.W.F. wrestling star and known dirtbag. Eddie was once a top draw on the East Coast wrestling circuit, but his glory days are long past - now they are filled with drugs and sex with groupies or local hookers. He has a horrible disposition and is very abusive to the women working in the locker room as an old-timer who worked around women wrestlers who doubled as escorts. He is prone to real violence due to his addictions.
in 1991 at Actor's Theatre of Louisville, directed by Jon Jory
. It has been a rumor that Jory himself may actually be the reclusive Jane Martin
.
Since then, it has been performed in repertory theaters across the country.
, screenwriter for See No Evil
and former W.W.E. writer/producer.
Also, Jessie Kresa (Impact Wrestling knockout O.D.B.), Gina Torres
and Louis Gossett Jr have been approached to play major roles.
Play (theatre)
A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of scripted dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. There are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little preference whether their plays were performed...
written by Jane Martin
Jane Martin
Jane Martin is the RUMORED pen-name of a playwright speculated to be retired Actors Theatre of Louisville artistic director Jon Jory. Jon Jory, Martin's spokesperson, denies being Jane Martin but has directed the premieres of Martin's shows....
, a Pulitzer
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
-nominated author and premiered at the 1991 Humana Festival of New American Plays. The work has also been republished in several collections of modern American plays.
Set in a dingy arena locker room in a Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...
rust town, the story follows a collection of run-down female wrestlers and their blow-hard manager as they try to put on a card of matches and everything goes wrong.
Plot
In a dismal locker room, Dwayne, an autograph hound, is trolling around when Nola (a local fan and arena gopher girl) and Tiger (a road-weary ex-con) enter. He dives into the broom closet. Tiger looks around the disgusting room, in bemused shock at how horrible it is. Nola tries to pet Tiger’s cat, but it’s actually a ChihuahuaChihuahua (dog)
The ' is the smallest breed of dog and is so named for the state of Chihuahua in Mexico. Chihuahuas come in a wide variety of sizes, head shapes, colors and coat lengths.-History:...
.
The loose-moralled Dani parades in and is also amazed at how gross the room is. She rants about their typical treatment and money issues. Netty and Angelessa come in next. Motherly Netty is rattling on about how good their dinner was, while the muscular Angelessa stays quiet. Nola finally gets the courage to talk the women about the wrestling business. Dani runs down the line up for tonight’s card, revealing that all of them will actually be playing several parts ,and the Cavalcade of Stars has only about 6 stars in it.
Tiger sends Nola on a beer
Beer
Beer is the world's most widely consumed andprobably oldest alcoholic beverage; it is the third most popular drink overall, after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of sugars, mainly derived from malted cereal grains, most commonly malted barley and malted wheat...
run for them while they get settled in. Big Man enters to run down the lineup. His brother Eddie had to be taken to the hospital the night before. The best guess is a hooker assaulted him. Dani complains about the lack of pay. Big Man slaps her, explaining that he needs her attention and she’s not being respectful about Eddie’s injury. He then tells them since Eddie’s out, the cruiserweight
Cruiserweight (professional wrestling)
In professional wrestling, a cruiserweight is a wrestler weighing 220 lb and less, sometimes 215. The older term junior heavyweight, which was used to describe the division, is more favored in Japan, where many titles for lighter-weight competitors are called junior heavyweight titles...
title match is off. Angelessa offers to do a mixed match. But despite her being a former Olympian, Big Man shoots it down. “No one’s gonna’ buy a black chick icing the cruiserweight contender.”
He tells them that he’s called in The Knockout Sisters, a formerly banned-from-wrestling-for-life tag-team / borderline porn
PORN
Porn is a common short form for pornography. It may also refer to:* Progressive outer retinal necrosis, a disease of the retina* PORN, a French industrial rock band...
act, who happen to live not too far away. The women aren’t very happy, knowing that Big Man will be spending part of their ticket money for the extra wrestlers.
As the ladies dress, they ponder over Eddie’s fate. Lessa says some hooker bit his dick off. The ladies are shocked and amused at the same time, but not sure to believe her. Angelessa says she helped patch him up until the ambulance arrived, using a tourniquet of dental floss. Suddenly, there’s a thump from the broom closet. Angelessa opens the door and finds Dwayne hiding. He pleads for autographs but after they, including Nola, have signed his book, he starts preaching at them for being sinful whores. Angelessa grabs him and throws him out, but not before he can grab Tiger by her sore ribs, leaving her in even more pain.
Before bell time, Big Man introduces Mother Crocker and her girls, Dolly and Dottie. It's obvious Mother’s girls know little about actual wrestling; their looks and Mother's mouth and influence have gotten them this far.
Dani and Tiger do the first match (Bloody Mary vs. Tarzana, Queen of the Jungle). It doesn’t go very well and Tiger is in real pain. Dani cut the match short to protect her. Angelessa and Netty are up next (as Black Lightning vs. Pajama Mama). When some guy in the crowd throws something at Lessa. She doesn’t take it lying down, climbing out and going after him. Netty and Lessa return the locker room. Big Man knows they've made a mistake.
Not long after, Bobbie Jack “One-Eye” Deneauve shows up at the locker room. He tells Big Man and Mother that he drove all the way from Kentucky to see some good ol’ fashioned ass-whuppin’ blood, sex and violence and so far the show is a no-show. Mother promises him better matches or he can have one of the girls.
Lessa gets dressed as “Olympia” for her next match with Tiger. Mother steps in saying that she can’t go out there and play the face
Face (professional wrestling)
In professional wrestling, a babyface or face or in simple words, a fan favorite is a character who is portrayed as a heroic relative to the heel wrestlers, who are analogous to villains...
(good girl) since she’s black and the crowd is full of rednecks. Mother demands Big Man do something even if he has to send some wrestlers out there nude. During the argument, Dolly pulls out a 9mm pistol to break it up. Mother threatens to pull out, but Big Man demands they had an agreement. He grabs the girls’ bag and finds what he knew he would: a bag of powder. Trying to gain the upper hand, he threatens to send the girls to jail. Dolly points the gun on him. A moment later, Big Man is choking after being forced to taste the contents; beach sand, a memento of her late husband.
Mother convinces Dani to do a lingerie match for one hundred dollars. Nola volunteers to wrestle her. Mother quizzes Nola on her wrestling knowledge, and Nola is more than ready with the answers. Dani coaches Nola as they run out.
Willie ‘Kid’ Cayman, a former boxer, introduces himself. He’s retired now; traveling the country on a journey to visit all the places he ever fought. He merely wants to look at the old room. Mother finishes readying her girls for the main event. Angelessa volunteers to go back out, but Mother cuts her off. Mother says that in Tennessee, the trash only want to see who they like in matches. That means who she says. Dottie says that means Lessa is just a ‘nigger’. Outraged, Lessa has to be held back from Dottie.
Dani and Nola return triumphant. The match not only went well, but they got tips from the crowd after the fight. The big tag-team match is finally ready to go. Dani and Nola (as Ninjas) will job
Job (professional wrestling)
In professional wrestling slang, the term job describes a losing performance in a wrestling match. It is derived from the euphemism "doing one's job", which was employed to protect kayfabe. As professional wrestling is scripted, inevitably a wrestler will be required to lose to an opponent.The term...
a match (take a dive) for the Knockout Sisters.
Angelessa snaps before the tag match even starts. She locks Nola in the broom closet, and puts on Nola’s Ninja costume. Before she can leave, Eddie arrives. He has come back for Lessa, since it was she who injured him the night before. Netty and Tiger try and pull him off as Angelessa but, Kid steps in and stops Eddie with a well-placed knee. Eddie collapses and crushes Tiger’s cat carrier, her little dog still inside. Lessa steps in for Nola and wipes the floor with both of the Knockouts and Mother. The crowd boils into a riot. Dottie flees to the locker room, bleeding. Netty and Tiger tend to her. She says her sister was lost, swept up into the crowd. Angelessa re-enters the locker room, with Mother in a headlock. Despite Mother’s bribe offers for her to stop, Lessa cold cocks her. Then, she sets about trashing the room.
Big Man storms in from the fray, furious at Angelessa for what she’s done. Mother and Dottie make a run for it. Lessa and Big Man brawl, but he eventually beats her down. Willie grabs Dolly’s pistol and shoots Big Man in the leg to stop him. Dani, Nola, Netty and Anglessa run out the back to Willie’s car. He stops to have a smoke with the injured Big Man. The raging crowd is now at the door. Willie calmly moves a locker set aside to reveal an old service tunnel leading out. As he shuffles down the corridor, Willie talks of the old days and how the fight game has changed, “Those were different times, then. Different times.”
Big Man and Eddie start to come to. The mob outside is starting to bash down the old wooden door. Big Man asks his injured brother, “How much you got left?” just as the enraged crowd pours in.
Characters
(In order of appearance in the play)Dwayne Pardee - Local character and autograph hound. Dwayne stalks any celebrities or near-celebrities that happen to come to Cementville. He keeps a large signature book that he says he plans to put into a time capsule for future generations. Dwayne, however, has some apparent mental issues combined from religious feverence and his idolizing of popular figures. That zeal can turn ugly.
Tiger - A wrestling ring veteran and ex-con. Tiger (no other name known) has managed to survive in the wrestling business mostly due to her physical stature and ability to play a good heel (bad girl). Tiger, however, has been working so long that she almost constantly needs to numb her aching body with alcohol or drugs. Tiger has little to care about, since she feels she has no other future, but she does take care of her little dog (no name given) and will back up her friends when push comes to shove - if only her ribs weren't so sore.
Nola - Local fangirl and wrestling wanna'be. Nola barely got through high school and so far only managed to work part-time or temp jobs at a local gas station and local factories, but she's always dreamed of being a big-time wrestling star. She wrestles with her bigger cousin, Jadine, for practice and can beat her in 'straight' wrestling. Nola has taught herself a lot of pro style moves but the psychology and drama of the ring seem to have escaped her and she has NO knowledge has the wrestling business really works.
Dani Malowski - The wrestling troupe's diva, Dani is actually a trained and talented wrestler. But, she's overworked and underpaid since signing with Big Man's outfit. If it wasn't for her mouth and attitude, she might have actually made the big-time. Dani has no issue confronting her bosses, but at the same time she lets herself be abused and seeks comfort in the strange men she meets on the road. Dani often has to portray several characters in the same show, working more than one match to make up for the low talent pool in the company.
Angelessa or Lessa - A former Olympian (shot putter) and college athlete, Lessa could never parlay her talents into a paying job. Probably hoping like W.W.E. and T.N.A. superstar Kurt Angle
Kurt Angle
Kurt Steven Angle is an American professional wrestler, amateur wrestler, and 1996 Olympic gold medalist. He is currently under contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is recognized as a 15-time World Heavyweight Champion...
, she thought she could transition into wrestling. The problem for her is that she has the body and ability, but lacks the mental attitude for the wrestling game. She is a very proud young woman and finds it difficult to accept that she's merely entertainment now and must occasionally lose, not an actual competitor. She also has to deal with being the only African-American in the troupe and the attitude of rural fans to her as bad girl Black Lightning.
Netty - The middle-age Alabama matron of the mats has done about every low-paying job out there. But, after trying her hand at working the ring, she's found she actually enjoys the job. Netty is a rose-colored glasses optimist, mostly due to the fact that she feels she has nothing else but the wrestling business now. She deals with the pain, the low pay and the low environments, since it gives her the chance to travel and be among the other women. Netty is bi-sexual, though she seems to prefer younger girls and has no qualms about it. Her demeanor, however, is that of a very genteel Southern gal who is just as pleased as punch to do anything asked of her.
Big Man Vag - Raised in the fight world, Big Man started out as gopher and coffee boy in Joe Louis' Boxing Gym. He knows all about the fight game, having been involved in both boxing and wrestling but never could excel at either. His brother Eddie Vag did manage to elevate himself in the wrestling world and Big rode his coattails. As Eddie's career waned, Big Man formed a wrestling troupe and tour around him, being the company's booker (sets the fights and dates) and promoter. Big Mag adopted the ring persona of Irish Bob to be the foil to Eddie Stosha 'The Wild Man' Oronofsky. Outside the ring, Big is only somewhat capable of running his company and cannot handle real stress. He is also a recovering alcoholic.
Mother Crocker - Formerly an owner of a small chain of car garages, Mother saw the explosion of pro wrestling on Pay Per View as a possible money-maker for her two young daughters (Dolly and Dottie) by turning them into the Knockout Sisters tag team. Giving the girls only some basic pro wrestling training, Mother pushed them onto every federation on their rise to stardom; which the girls did mostly on their backs in hotel rooms. She is a very formidable middle-aged woman, who smokes small cigars as she bulldozes her girls way to the top. Sadly, their run-in with the law was a setback to her long-term goal of getting the Knockouts into movies.
Dolly Crocker - One half the Knockout Sisters, the scary half. The petite blonde may be a borderline sociopath, and has no compunction about threatening violence on those that get in her way. Like her sister, she has only passing wrestling skills in the ring; letting her looks and sexual favors move her career onwards.
Dottie Crocker - Dottie looks more like a fitness model, being just under six feet tall with a lithe figure. She imagines herself as some kind of deep spiritual person, but she's as shallow as her kinfolk. She has no issue using sex to get what she wants, since she doesn't have any other real talent or skill.
Bobbie Jack 'One-Eye' Deanavue - A warehouse worker from Lecher County, Kentucky. Bobbie Jack is a simple man. He works hard and he wants to play hard, but he is very critical if he's paying two-bits to see a show. He wants what he pays for and he has no issue using his favorite knife to get it.
Ms. Harmon - Local girl and usherette at the Cementville Sportsdrome. Just out of her teens, Ms. Harmon had a two-week personnel training course and is more used to working regular sporting events and truck shows. She's not quite ready for the chaos that the Vixens of Violence Tour is bringing into her arena.
Willie 'Kid' Cayman - Former middleweight boxer, long retired. Kid did the smart thing when he was still in the fight game, he saved his money and bought property in Florida. In his later years, he got a car and took to the road. He now travels to all the arenas he ever fought in and recalls the glory days of his youth. Kid is very spry older black man, managing to keep his very acute mental faculties, even after years of boxing. He comes across as a sweet old guy with a sharp memory, but he can still deal out the pain if the situation calls.
Eddie Vag - Former W.W.W.F. wrestling star and known dirtbag. Eddie was once a top draw on the East Coast wrestling circuit, but his glory days are long past - now they are filled with drugs and sex with groupies or local hookers. He has a horrible disposition and is very abusive to the women working in the locker room as an old-timer who worked around women wrestlers who doubled as escorts. He is prone to real violence due to his addictions.
Stage
The original production opened at the Humana Festival of New American PlaysHumana Festival of New American Plays
Humana Festival of New American Plays is an internationally renowned festival that celebrates the contemporary American playwright. Produced annually in Louisville, Kentucky by Actors Theatre of Louisville, this prestigious event showcases new theatrical works and draws producers, critics,...
in 1991 at Actor's Theatre of Louisville, directed by Jon Jory
Jon Jory
Jon Jory is a theatrical director instrumental in the development of the Actors Theatre of Louisville; he is also widely rumored to be the writer behind the pseudonym Jane Martin....
. It has been a rumor that Jory himself may actually be the reclusive Jane Martin
Jane Martin
Jane Martin is the RUMORED pen-name of a playwright speculated to be retired Actors Theatre of Louisville artistic director Jon Jory. Jon Jory, Martin's spokesperson, denies being Jane Martin but has directed the premieres of Martin's shows....
.
Since then, it has been performed in repertory theaters across the country.
Film
Recently, Impossibility Productions producer John C. Young optioned Cementville for an independent film. To date, the project has attached director Dan MadiganDan Madigan
Dan Madigan is an American television producer, author and screenwriter. He is known for his work in the professional wrestling industry, including writing and producing for WWE Smackdown....
, screenwriter for See No Evil
See No Evil (film)
See No Evil is a 2006 horror film directed by Gregory Dark, written by Dan Madigan, produced by Joel Simon, and starring professional wrestler Kane. It is the first major film produced by WWE Films and was released by Lions Gate Entertainment on May 19, 2006.The film went through many different...
and former W.W.E. writer/producer.
Also, Jessie Kresa (Impact Wrestling knockout O.D.B.), Gina Torres
Gina Torres
Gina Torres is an American television and movie actress. She is known for her roles in science fiction and fantasy. She has appeared in many television series, including Hercules: The Legendary Journeys , Xena: Warrior Princess , the short-lived Cleopatra 2525, as well as Alias , Firefly Gina...
and Louis Gossett Jr have been approached to play major roles.