


Their complaint comes amid a floodtide of anti-trans rhetoric that this is flowing across the United States. The complaint that these parents have is that the 19 characters that are featured in this play will be played by seven actors, and some of those actors will need to play a gender opposite their own for the production to work. Besides featuring a triumph of interior decoration, there is nothing gay about this play. The Roald Dahl book (which was adapted into a film in 1996 and later into a stage musical) is essentially a story about a young boy named James who crawls inside a giant peach and befriends some polite anthropomorphized insects that have made a cozy home inside the fruit. If you don’t know the plot of James and the Giant Peach, I mourn your squandered childhood. According to the Houston Chronicle, the district deemed the play to not be “age appropriate”, despite being a production for children. The Last Town at last pitches Ethan Burke and his fellow residents into all-out war against the forces outside the town’s gates-and in doing so delivers every bit the riotously horrific, breathlessly action-packed conclusion that the Wayward Pines trilogy deserves.A Texas school district recently canceled a scheduled class field trip after parents found out that the play featured cross-gendered casting. And now that secret is about to come storming through the fence to wipe out this last, fragile remnant of humanity. No one is allowed to leave even asking questions can get you killed.īut Ethan has discovered the astonishing secret of what lies beyond the electrified fence that surrounds Wayward Pines and protects it from the terrifying world beyond. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. What’s outside is a thousand times worse.

The final book of the smash-hit Wayward Pines trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade
