We didn’t even know there was a play about the Mustang, so when reader Dean Hillestad alerted us about a Wisconsin high school performing it, we contacted Linda Schwarze, English instructor and play director at Greenwood High School to get more information.
Written by noted playwright Burton Bumgarner, “’65 Mustang” is set in and around a ’65 Mustang. There are five scenes, each a decade apart to depict events in the lives of the people who own, drive, or come in contact with the car.
Throughout its existence, the Mustang encounters newlyweds, birth, death, a flood, destruction, and finally restoration. Sounds a lot like the vintage Mustang that most of us own.
Members of the Greenwood High School Drama Club performed the play for their local theatre last October. It was also chosen to be presented at the Sectionals Wisconsin High School Forensic Association’s Theatre in Eau Claire in November.
Photo caption: In the 1965 decade of the play “’65 Mustang” by students at Greenwood High School in Wisconsin, Jared Revier portrays a poor adolescent who admires the car and can only dream of driving a new Mustang. The spoiled birthday girl, Kaity Suda, doesn’t want him to even touch her new car. Her passengers are Olivia Gregorich and Jennifer Baker.