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. This is the final weekend for the second show in the festival, “I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers”. The third Solo Play production opens TONIGHT (Fri. 1/19): Director Melanie Dreyer-Lude and actress Sarah Wiggin return to SCT with the poetic and stirring “Grounded.” And the festival concludes next weekend with dancer/choreographer Ruth Barnes in “Here, There and Everywhere.” Sarah Wiggin and Ruth Barnes appeared on “Arts News” this morning to talk about their shows. Sarah Wiggin, Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance at Missouri State University, stars in George Brant’s “Grounded.” The protagonist, says Wiggin, “is an Air Force fighter pilot, and that’s how she completely identifies herself. Almost genderless—she considers ‘fighter
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