Created from LFTC's popular "Lost Wife Creek" series (reviewed as "Historic, nostalgic, hilarious ... throughly enjoyable") set in Depression-era rural New Mexico, this saga takes the Aragones and the Trotters from 1933 through 1941. Roosevelt's New Deal is "turning the country around", and dreams of lost gold, stardom in "talkies", and a Spanish land grant vie with reality of drought, a ne'er-do-well son, & a decrepit old flivver. The misadventures, trials and triumphs rollick along to live bluegrass, with music/songs both of the times and original. Click here for more details...

London Frontier, in its historic WPA venue and 15th season in Magdalena, continues to present a wide variety of plays incorporating our vivid multi-culture in exciting, entertaining theatre.

*Each episode of the "Lost Wife Creek" is a complete play in itself.

All performances at Magdalena's Historic WPA Theatre, Main at Fourth St.
For further information,  updates/added shows, & reservations, please contact us at
(575) 854-2519 or londonfrontier@gilanet.com

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Our thanks to:
Major funding by the Kerr Foundation, the McCune Foundation, USDA "community facilities", Socorro Electric Coop., & LFTC's "Friends of the Theatre."

Our Last Performance was...

October 23/24/25

THE BALLAD OF BABE & BEAU

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Reviewed as, "a splendid multimedia production in which film, sound and acting all meld together to further the poignant story", BABE & BEAU tells the tale of two aging outlaws who return to the roaring cowtown they remember from their heyday in the 1890's, to find it's now - 1919 - a dusty remnant of its rowdy past. But Babe and Beau have almost 30 years of living to make up, and neither law nor time has "tamed and tidied" the larger-than-life, dare-anything pair.

BABE & BEAU takes a humorous and penetrating look at what creates legends ("what we wanted to be - or do - and weren't, or didn't") and the truth about aging. (As the retired local madam says - with a knowing smile -  "...if you're old; they think you can't sin any more.")

A mock holdup of an automobile by a mounted bandit is to be part of the town's first annual "Outlaw Days" celebration . But complexities of modern life and a yen for a "last hurrah" tempt even the dour local sheriff to attempt something more "authentic."

Video interweaves with stage action, carrying audiences on a journey back to a time when life and landscape seemed to stretch endlessly in an epic adventure. (Review: "The films evoke the times and the town and the West. The Second Act horse-and-car chase is positively brilliant.")

Period music performed by Mont L. Laster and Friends, recorded for radio shows (circa 1955) in Clarksville, Arkansas, shifts the mood from lively to sentimental, country to ragtime to waltz.

Actors were Frank Howard, Ruth Ryan, Donna Todd, Donald Wiltshire, and Bennie Zamora; with set/lighting by Ronald Thornton; video projection, Makeyen DeMaria-Gassoumis: sound. Terry Stone. Video filmed and edited by Michael Mideke. Donna Todd is author and director.

This project funded in part by the McCune Foundation, the Kerr Foundation, Socorro Electric Cooperative, & LFTC's "Friends of the Theatre.""

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