The Spitfire Grill

The production is based on a 1989 movie by Lee David Zlotoff “The Spitfire Grill’.  The music was inspired by rural folk music traditions indigenous to Wisconsin and Southern Appalachia.  The story is about a young parolee, Percy Talbot, trying to make a new start, working at the grill, in a closed, narrow-minded, dying Wisconsin town.   The owner of the grill, Hanna Ferguson, is a cantankerous old woman with a secret to hide.  After Hanna accidentally breaks her leg, Percy must run the grill by herself.  Hanna’s nephew, Caleb's wife, Shelby, steps in to help, and the two younger women become fast friends.  The town’s sheriff, Joe, is assigned to keep an eye on the young Percy, but falls for her, instead.  The town gossip, Effy, keeps her nose in everyone’s business, and the mysterious stranger lurks at the edge of all the drama that life serves up at the Spitfire.