College Edition

Optional

Hemp Display:

An optional addition for the theatre lobby/waiting room. Includes samples of fabrics, food, paper, and many other products made from Industrial Hemp.

The Caitlin County

Hemp Wars:

College Edition

The new 'roots' musical about community & family, and following your bliss.

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Story:
Three generations of an extended farm family don’t always get along (“Family”). The farm is going under, and there is disagreement about how to keep it going. Shelly, a college student, wants to live her own life and loves Michael, Uncle Ray’s farm hand against the will of her parents ("Want to be me"). One night she has a dream which she shares with her grandmother Cora. Maybe her family can save the farm by growing Industrial Hemp? Cora shares Shelly’s ideas with her devoted husband Henry and Tom, Shelly’s brother and third generation of this extended farm family. Tom commiserates with his cousins about the plight of the farm, expresses jealousies toward his sibling, and antipathy towards Michael, (“Kids Know Best"”).

At Shelly’s Invitation, the grandparents attend a Hempfest where they listen to a local band (“Grass”) and learn about the useful applications of Industrial Hemp. After fighting with her parents, Shelly visits Michael who asks her to marry him ("Take a Stand"). At a family meeting, there is general agreement that because of their desperate situation they are willing to experiment with a Hemp crop. Shelly and Michael announce their engagement, and Michael is accepted into the fold. All is right with the world (“Peace Now”), except for Uncle Ray who thinks the family should sell the farm. Next morning, the family elders, in an east-meets-west experience, show Shelly’s Goth clad friends how to sow the Hemp ("Planting the Seeds" – a combination of Traditional and Rap music).

Ray, wanting “out” of the farm ("Caitlin County Blues"), exposes his family to the corporate executives who want to buy the farm for a considerable sum (“Compromised Individuals”). The family meets with some neighboring farmers who agree to help with the Harvesting of the crop (“Hangin’ Together”). They create a “crop-circle” to divert the Feds who in all likelihood will be snooping around (“Diversionary Tactics”). Cora creates her own diversion (“The Chase”) until they are all caught. At the Caitlin County Courthouse, the family is ably represented by their attorney ("Courtroom Cowboy"), and they get off with a light sentence. Ray leaves town, Shelly and Michael become husband and wife, and, in a rousing finale, the family and community realize the importance of being there for each other (“One People”).

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