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read an excerpt The movie - a staged reading Here are some great pictures from the first read through by the cast.
Note: I'm also working on an adaptation for the stage and am interested in working with producers of either stage or screen productions. |
The Backside of Nowhere by Alec Clayton (2009) Alec Clayton's novel of life and love on the bayou is generating hurricane conditions on the steamy Mississippi Gulf Coast! "... his best novel so far, and is a rollicking good read. It contains Hollywood pop gossip as well as downhome humor and veers from the ridiculous to the sublime, with strong characters and important social issues all subsumed into the plot. If you liked Clayton's other novels you should grab this one immediately. It's not just good but fun." --Larry Johnson, author of Veins "The Back Side of Nowhere (what a great title!) is a wild and funny Southern novel set on the Gulf Coast in range of New Orleans. It deals in floods and hurricanes, not all of them natural. As we say, It's almost too true to be funny (it isn't really). Sometimes people describe things like this as Southern Gothic--but the fact of the matter is, these people really are that strange--if by strange you mean having a life of your own that interacts hilariously with the modern media but does not depend on them. If you're a fan of Big Poppa and his crazy Southern children, this ought to be right up your alley. A great ride!" --Jack Butler, author of Living in Little Rock with Miss Littlerock and Jujitsu for Christ "I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo impressed. I read and reread sections just poring over the word pictures".-- Margaret Ward The Backside of Nowhere is a drama of family conflict set in a fictional town near the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Popular movie star David Lawrence has not spoken to his father in more than twenty years. When the old man has a heart attack while driving drunk and careens off the top of a parking garage, David leaves his girl friend and frequent co-star Jasmine Jones to go home to the little bayou town of Freedom to be with his family while the old man hovers near death. While there, he falls in love with his old high school sweetheart, confronts a lifelong enemy (the local sheriff), and discovers that his beautiful adopted sister, Melissa, is not who he thinks she is. A hurricane is heading toward Freedom and David’s obstinate old man, practically on his death bed, decides to throw a hurricane party and ride out the storm with friends. When the storm hits the Lawrence house is swept off its foundation and washed down the bayou with everyone trapped inside. It comes to rest against a pile of debris. Water fills the lower floor. David’s father and Melissa are trapped underwater, and it is David and his old enemy the sheriff who must save them, which they do -- barely. Afterwards they are all trapped in the house, and while confined together they confront each other with old hurts and long-buried secrets.
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