By Ernest Kearney — A writer (Scott Golden) is assigned to do a book on the town of Wigfield. Nestled in the shadow of a threatened dam, it is a small community that makes David Lynch’s Twin Peaks look like Mayberry; three mayors, oversexed teenagers, con men and a marauding serial killer on the loose.
Written by Pamela Eberhardt, the piece is adapted from the novel Wigfield: The Can Do Town That Just May Not by Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, and Stephen Colbert and is currently onstage at the Hudson Theatres for the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019.
One can see the wit of those three, comedy heavy hitters in this staging, directed by Arlo Sanders:
“Freedom comes with a price, which is money.”
“Sometimes it’ll take me twice as long to do nothing as it takes a city girl to do something.”
“Keep on living till it kills you.”
Overall Wigfield is rough and pleasantly ridiculous, and the cast succeeds in getting a sense of the absurd across to the audience, especially Golden. But one can’t help but wish, considering the source of the material, that time had 
been taken to see this diamond in the rough was polished more thoroughly.
A SILVER MEDAL.
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