KORBEL V: The Secret at Dell'Arte International

The 2014 MRF will kick off with this year's mainstage production Korbel V: The Secret. The Humboldt County saga of the ill-fated Dugan family is back in Dell’Arte’s Rooney Amphitheatre with live music and comedy guaranteed. With a can of beer in one hand and a second can in the other, Michael Fields returns to the stage this summer as Tommy Dugan in an all-new sequel to the Dell'Arte Company's popular 'Korbel' series. Written by playwright and director Lauren Wilson, Korbel V: The Secret catches up with Tommy seventeen years after the mill laid him off, the bank foreclosed on his house, and his mother stuck her head in a microwave oven. He is living in the woods in a derelict trailer, when he learns that the Korbel Timber Company is closing for good and evicting the workers' families from company housing. Inflamed by this affront to his sense of justice and surrounded by the ghosts of the past, Tommy struggles against himself, his ex-wife and his entire backwoods community to become the hero the town needs. Korbel V: The Secret is a comic glimpse of life amidst economic disaster, a comic tribute to one flawed human being hoping to help his community.