PlayMakers Wraps Up Season With "Real Americans"

The American heartland is full of great characters – and a bunch of them are making their way to the Chapel Hill stage this weekend.

PlayMakers Repertory Company wraps up its PRC²series this weekend with a one-man show called “The Real Americans,” written and performed by NYC-based playwright/journalist Dan Hoyle based on interviews conducted with Americans across the country. (The Huffington Post called the end result “nothing short of brilliant.”)

Hoyle – a master of many voices who specializes in “journalistic theater” – says he drove across the country in a van, avoiding the interstates, stopping in small towns and talking with folks about their lives. (How many interviews did he conduct? It’s hard to say: Hoyle says some of his best material came from random encounters that hardly count as ‘interviews’ at all.)

Dan Hoyle spoke this week with WCHL’s Aaron Keck.