Tomato Plant Girl

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What is the show about?

Tomato Plant Girl
Written by Wesley Middleton
Directed by Alicia Fuss

This powerful exploration of friendship delights young audiences with its sharp dialogue, physical action and playful, high-energy conflict. Little Girl is the new kid in Heretown. Good thing she’s got her Bossy Best Friend! The girls share a garden where time moves to the rhythm of Bossy’s commands until the day Little Girl can no longer obey. Bossy has forbidden Little Girl to touch her precious tomato plant. But if the plant doesn’t get watered soon, it will die. When Bossy leaves to visit her grandma, Little Girl uproots the plant in a valiant rescue, and a messy girl-creature springs out of the earth, spitting up dirt and crying red tears. Soon, Little Girl is playing crazy new games with Tomato Plant Girl and teaching her to say “please.” Maybe Little Girl has found a new Best Friend. But what will they do when Bossy returns? And what if Tomato Plant Girl won’t stay? When her friendships collide and Little Girl has to choose, she discovers the power of making up her own rules.

This show is perfect for young elementary audiences and runs about 50 minutes long.

F.A.Q. for attending an MTSU Theatre Production

 When is the show?

Tomato Plant Girl runs two weekends.

Thursday, April 3 – Friday, April 4, and Thursday, April 10 – Friday April 11 at 7:30pm
with a matinee performances on Saturday April 5th, and April 12th as well as on Sunday, April 6 and April 13 at 2:00pm

How do I get a ticket?

Tickets are available here or you can purchase them at the door of the Theatre. Tickets for shows in Anderson Studio Theatre typically sell out in advance.

Where is the theatre?

Anderson Studio Theatre is located at 615B champion way, Murfreesboro, TN 37132 on the campus of MTSU
The entrance to the lobby is off of MTSU BLVD.

Where can I park?

Anderson Studio Theatre is part of the Boutwell Dramatic Arts Building. Parking is available in all campus parking lots surrounding the theatre free of charge after 4:30 p.m. M-F and on weekends. Parking during daytime hours (7:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) is available by permit only. You may obtain a temporary / visitors permit from Parking Services. For more information about parking at MTSU please visit the parking website.

The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, part of the
Rubenstein Arts Access Program, is generously funded by
David and Alice Rubenstein.

Special thanks to The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust for supporting
the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Kennedy Center American
College Theater Festival.

Additional support is provided by The Honorable Stuart Bernstein and Wilma E.
Bernstein; the Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation; and Beatrice and
Anthony Welters and the AnBryce Foundation.

KCACTF is part of JFKC: A Centennial Celebration of John F. Kennedy, inspired
by five enduring Ideals often ascribed to JFK: Courage, Freedom, Justice,
Service, and Gratitude. Support for JKFC: A Centennial Celebration of John F. Kennedy
is provided by Ambassador Elizabeth Bagley, Chevron,
the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, and Target.

Kennedy Center education and related artistic programming is made possible
through the generosity of the National Committee for the Performing Arts and the
President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts.

This production Is entered In the Kennedy Center American College Theater
Festival (KCACTF). The aims of this national theater education program are to
identity and promote quality in college-level theater production. To this end, each
production entered is eligible for a response by a regional KCACTF
representative, and selected students and faculty are invited to participate in
KCACTF programs involving scholarships. internships, grants, and awards for
actors, directors, dramaturgs, playwrights, designers, stage managers and critics
at both the regional and national levels.

Productions entered on the Participating level are eligible for invitation to the
KCACTF regional festival and may also be considered for national awards
recognizing outstanding achievement In production, design, direction and
performance.

By entering this production, our theater department is sharing in the KCACTF
goals to recognize. reward. and celebrate the exemplary work produced in
college and university theaters across the nation.