Clocks Are Like Angels Performed by MLT on the Grounds of Oaklands Mansion; Playwright Kyle R. Thomas Again Invited to Rogue Theater Fest in NYC

In collaboration with Oaklands Mansion, Murfreesboro Little Theatre will present Clocks Are Like Angels by local playwright Kyle R. Thomas, the next MLT production on the grounds of Oaklands.

The play’s initial performance on June 8 will take place at the Rogue Theater Festival in New York City. 2024 marks the third year that Thomas—a Murfreesboro resident and MTSU graduate—has participated in the Rogue Theater Festival.

In 2022, his monologue play Portrait of a Young Man made it to the festival, held each year on Theatre Row in Manhattan.

Kyle R. Thomas

Then, Rogue selected Thomas’ This House Is Not a Home for a June 2023 performance.

His latest play, Clocks Are Like Angels, takes place in a small town in East Tennessee in 1933, when the TVA began dam construction and started buying up land and displacing families. The story opens with a family burying their fifth baby, and later they find out that they must rebury their dead as part of their forced move, an obligation that is simply unthinkable to them.

Clocks Are Like Angels photos by Jennifer Faulkner / Faulkner Photography

As the stakes intensify, the family must grapple with the question of whether life is still worth living at all. Twists, turns and betrayals ensue, leading to a tragic ending.

MLT’s production of Clocks Are Like Angels will be performed on the back patio of Murfreesboro’s historic Oaklands Mansion.

VIP Night will be Friday, June 14, beginning at 7 p.m. with music, hors d’oeuvres and beverages inside Oaklands Mansion, followed by the performance at 8 p.m.

General admission performances are Saturday and Sunday June 15 and 16, beginning at 8 p.m. VIP tickets start at $35, while general admission ticket prices start at $10.

The run time for this production is 1 hour and 10 minutes.

Find additional information at mltarts.com. Founded in 1962, Murfreesboro Little Theatre is the oldest continuing community theater troupe in the area and the nonprofit strives to provide an eclectic array of shows to entice and entertain everyone.

Find more on Oaklands Mansion at oaklandsmansion.org.