Springfield Contemporary Theatre presents the 2018 Missouri Solo Play Festival at SCT Center Stage in Wilhoit Plaza (corner of Pershing & Robberson) throughout the month of January, with plays about four great women running in repertory. The first play in the festival is "Walking Toward America" by Sandra Asher, adapted from the memoirs of Ilga Vise, longtime Springfield resident (and one of the interviewers on the League of Women Voters' Monday-morning KSMU program "Making Democracy Work"). Following that is "I'll Eat You First: A Chat with Sue Mengers" by John Logan, which depicts the larger-than-life Hollywood agent Sue Mengers telling tales about the showbiz world. David Montgomery directs "Walking Toward America" for SCT, and Gretchen Teague will direct "I'll Eat You First." Equity actor Annie Meek Montgomery is once again portraying Ilga Katais-Paeglis Vise: she first did the play a few years ago at the Springfield-Greene County Library Center, with Ilga herself on hand for
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