Four recent retirees encounter a sack of sentient potatoes, and find their outworn belief systems forcibly confronted by the challenges of a highly integrated, enlightened metaphysics. These potatoes have brains, have read their Swedenborg, and don't always play fair.
Parts kitchen sink drama, musical comedy, intimate biographical portraiture, museum educational presentation, opera,
Renaissance fair, science fiction, science fair, and phenomenological debate, POTATOES OF AUGUST is a fugue in both the musical and psychiatric sense.
If you are one of those folks who likes to prepare before you see a show - here's a suggested reading list from the playwright. Or perhaps you like to look at related texts after you see the show - that's cool, too. Or maybe you don't like to do either. No pressure.