Baseball comedy featuring young actors coming to Switch Theater

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Swing, Batta – an original, G-rated comedy about kids’ baseball players – will be performed Oct. 4 to 6 at The Switch Theater, 10029 E. 126th, Suite D, Fishers. Showtimes are 7 p.m. Oct. 4, 2 and 7 p.m. Oct. 5, and 2 p.m. Oct. 6.

The playwright is Garret Mathews, retired columnist with the Evansville Courier & Press. His legacy website is pluggerpublishing.com, which includes links to some favorite columns and material about the Civil Rights movement and Appalachia. The website for his several plays is garretmathews.com.

Swing, Batta is taken from Mathews’ book of the same title that was published by the Michigan State University Press and received a nice review in The New York Times.

The director is Aaron Henze, a veteran of the Indianapolis theater scene. He plays the coach – the only adult in the cast. The other seven actors are children.

The production is based on teams I coached in the Evansville Plaza Park League when our sons were younger. Some of the dialogue is verbatim from games and practices. The children in Swing, Batta are quite real – no angels in this outfield.

Ticket prices are $15 for adults and $10 for children. Boys and girls who come to the play in their baseball uniforms will be admitted for $5.