Aiken Community Theater set to perform "Some Place Called Mayor's Income Tennessee"

“Some Place Called Mayor’s Income Tennessee” is a play hosted at the Aiken Community Theater on Newberry Street on April 1, 2, 7, 8 and 9 at 7:30 p.m. and April 3 at 2:00 p.m. The play is a full-length play made up of 8 shorter, episode-like plays all set in a fictional town of Mayor’s Income Tennessee.

“Some Place Called Mayor’s Income Tennessee” is written by local playwright Jonathan Cook of Augusta, Georgia. Cook is a four-time winner of the Porter Fleming Literary Award and has written 19 plays in total.

“Lobster Man” is about a couple in a post-apocalyptic world who meet a stranger at the front door. It turns out the stranger is a fictional character that one of them made up earlier in the day.

“Reflections” is a story about a couple whose daughter goes missing. They speak with a grief counselor who is left confused about fact and fiction after hearing their story.

“Celebration of the Fox Moon” is a story about a dinner party interrupted by two criminals on the run from the cops.

“My Muse” is a story about an author suffering from writer’s block. Trying to break free of this malady, he kidnaps a woman he believes is his muse.

“Wages of Sins” is about a man who has lived a life of sin. He decides one day to go to a pawnshop and try to sell off his sins.

“Transferring Kyle” is about a man whose life is on the wrong track and management decides he must be replaced.

“A Play by Theodore Janus” is a story about a playwright who tries to convince an actress in one of his plays to change the ending of the play allowing her character to live rather than die.

“Marigold” is a story about a man at a park who meets two strangers who mistake him for someone else. They make a deal with him and exchange some money but the man is left confused by the whole encounter.

Tickets for “Some Place Called Mayor’s Income, Tennessee” are available for purchase online here.