Meadows Theatre: The Rimers of Eldritch by Lanford Wilson

The Rimers of Eldritch has been described as a play that prefigured David Lynch’s film Blue Velvet. This early work is by the Pulitzer Prize winner Lanford Wilson, a member of the Theater Hall of Fame, who was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a Master American Dramatist. New York Times critic Mel Gussow said it “looks behind the Spoon River Anthology exterior in order to expose the warring frustrations…of a small ghostly town frozen in time and place, the mid-century in the Middle West.”