Synopsis
Who Loves You Jimmie Orrio
Published by Dramatic Publishing
3 Male 2 Female
J.T., an unflappable 13-year-old girl, Melinda's only friend, delights in rumors that the "speechless" woman is a witch. Purveying a possibly supernatural jar of moonshine, Leonard Pager, a middle-aged black man out of place in white Cookeville, stops for dessert with Jessica and finds he has a high price to pay for a piece of pie
Just out after a year in jail, Jimmie Orrio sleeps in the next trailer. It seems Jimmie was in jail for shooting a cowboy twice over something bad the cowboy was doing to a horse. On Jimmie's trailer are the words, "I Love You, Jimmie Orrio," scrawled in red crayon. Who wrote them? Melinda has been waiting a year for Jimmie Orrio to come back. What happened a year ago?
Melinda, under the moonlight, pours sugar over her body, highlighting a hoof-shaped imprint on her forehead; it looks as though she's been kicked by a small horse. Mysteries are answered as, propelled by the potent jar of moonshine and the healing touch of an outsider, a minor miracle presents itself and shows Melinda that the dirt road outside the trailer park has always led to freedom
"Fearsomely intimatethe play's heady late spring atmosphere...the images createdtwirling in the moonlight as she [Melinda] anoints herself with sugardeliver a wallop" ~ Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle
"Jimmie is great theater" ~ Peter Lewis, Marin Scope
One ext. set
Approximate running time: 90 minutes