David Wayne Reed: Mother Trucker 2: Ride On

Friday, July 15th from Monday, August 1st, 2011

Mother Trucker 2: Ride On

La Esquina / 1000 West 25th, KCMO

Performances July 15 through August 1:

Fridays, Saturdays, & Mondays at 8pm; Sundays at 6pm

Tickets: $20

Written and directed by David Wayne Reed, Mother Trucker 2 is the second installment (following Mother Trucker, 2004) in the lowdown tale of widow Ruby Lee Jenkins and her crippled pre-teen, Teddy Bear, grappling with a new life on the road after the untimely trucking death of husband and father, Jerry Lee Jenkins. It is both homage to and parody of the trucker movie adventures of yore.

In Mother Trucker 2: Ride On, Ruby Lee Jenkins is desperate to save her home and her pink Peterbilt from foreclosure and takes a new opportunity westward to Las Vegas where everything to lose becomes nothing to lose and everything to gain. Mother Trucker 2: Ride On finds the Jenkins family in new terrain where they take the bull by the horns (literally and figurately) and encounter UFO enthusiasts, casinos, lot lizards, sister wives, rodeos, Barbara Mandrell and love.

This is the first return of a Late Night Theatre show since LNT closed its doors in early 2007. Mother Trucker 2: Ride On stars Ron Megee, Kimberely Queen, Gary Campbell, Darryl W. Jones, Shannon Michalski, Ashley Otis, Cody Wyoming, and David Wayne Reed.