Terre Haute

Description

A famous author comes face-to-face with America's most notorious terrorist. One has a story to write, the other has a story to tell. As the clock ticks on Death Row, the bond between the two men grows. Terre Haute is inspired by Gore Vidal's famous essays on Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh. A scorching new play by one of America's greatest living writers, it premiered to critical acclaim at the Edinbrugh Fringe Festival in August 2006, before touring the UK in spring 2007.

Edmund White is the author of many critically acclaimed books, the most recent being The Flaneur. He was made an officer in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and won a literary prize from the Festival of Deauville. Born in Ohio in 1940, he has lived in New York, Rome and France. He now teaches at Princeton University. His acclaimed autobiography, My Lives, was published in 2006 (Bloomsbury).

'One of the most brilliant and distinguished authors at work in America today' * Patrick McGrath * 'America's most influential gay writer' * Time Magazine *