The Red Suitcase

Funny, dramatic, cathartic and deeply moving!

Burgess's language is poetical at times, reminiscent of other Southern writers like Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers and William Faulkner. As an audience member you fall under the spell of his words and the story being told.

Emerson Collins commands the stage with his performance. You believe him just as surely as a three-year old as you do a thirty-year old. His Pogue breaks your heart and then carefully puts it back together. The other six performers create a strong ensemble to back him up. Director Del Shores…elicits well-etched characters from his talented cast.

A touching and wonderfully drawn portrait of a family many experienced, then and still today.
- Rob Stevens, HAINESHISWAY.COM

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Theatrical magic! Fascinating! Beautifully written!

Breathtakingly and gracefully expressive dialogue.

"Still, what is taken away from The Red Suitcase more than any other aspect of this hauntingly evocative production is the blossoming advent of an important new playwright. Jiggs Burgess has a smashing gift for taking a premise hardly untapped and infusing it with a fresh and indelibly personal take on what a struggle it is to grow up in our convoluted society, to find refuge and safety where there has been none, and above all, to ultimately be comfortable in one's own skin."
- Travis Holder, TICKETHOLDERS

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Laugh-out-loud funny, get-out-the-Kleenex moving!

The instantly likeable Emerson Collins proves a charismatic, commanding stage presence in a star turn…deftly taking Pogue from precocious child to lovestruck preteen to angry, bitter young adult and beyond.

Reminiscent of The World According To Garp (but with a gay Texas spin), Jiggs Burgess's The Red Suitcase is every bit as touching and uplifting as it is entertaining."
- Steven Stanley, StageSceneLA

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A Dazzling Production!

The resulting production is a must-see!

This production of The Red Suitcase is noteworthy both for its fine acting and the very fluid staging that moves like a dance across the fairly small stage where actors change roles and costumes rapidly out of the many suitcases on the stage itself.

Emerson Collins is a charismatic presence on stage, deftly portraying a boy at various stages of his childhood and eventually in the final scenes a grown man living in New York City and away from his Texas roots.
Robert St. Martin – The Hollywood Times

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P3 Theatre Company, in association with the Del Shores Foundation and Beard Collins Shores Productions presents...

THE RED SUITCASE

by Jiggs Burgess

Directed by Del Shores
Assistant Direction and additional staging by Blake McIver Ewing

at the Broadwater Theatre (Mainstage) in Hollywood
1078 Lillian Way, Los Angeles, CA 90038

August 10th - September 3rd, 2023
Fridays and Saturdays @ 8:00 pm
Sundays @ 2:00 pm,

The Best Play Winner for the Del Shores Foundation Writers Search, The Red Suitcase follows Pogue's life from his unusual birth to the death of his father.
The play explores the sometimes difficult relationships between fathers and sons and how the sins of generations can be passed along unintentionally.
Pogue is led on a journey that takes him from, "we are the sins of our ancestors" to "we are the hope of our ancestors." A play of hope, survival, and the discovery of self-worth.

Starring: Emerson Collins, Kristin McCullough, Bruce Melena, Charlotte Louise White, Mat Hayes, Pam Trotter, and Tiago Santos

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