Failing to find the right one - and given that he is a playwright himself - he decided to write it. Hallman got what he called a “wild hair,” and decided the company should produce a baseball play. And so I was really excited about continuing the use of site specific and outdoor theater as something we could do to bring our mission forward, to keep doing contemporary plays in Iowa.” But sometimes necessity shows you things that can work outside of necessity. That was very much a response to the pandemic and a response to necessity. “Mirrorbox was really happy with the results of our first adventure into outdoor theater when we did The Parking Lot last summer at CSPS,” Hallman explained. 17 to 26 and will be performed outdoors at Allen’s Orchard in Marion. Mirrorbox Theatre’s premiere production of This Is Not A Game of Baseball: The Far-Out Story of Baseball’s Most Revolutionary Pitcher will run from Sept. There is a much more complex and human story to bring to life for audiences - baseball fans or not. That game, as the play will illustrate, was hardly the end-all-be-all of Ellis’s life. He himself could hardly remember the game at all. Ellis accomplished this impressive feat (one of only four that season) under the influence of LSD. This Is Not a Game of Baseball takes as its jumping off point the no-hitter thrown by Pittsburgh Pirates righthander Dock Ellis on June 12, 1970.
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