Small Towns can have a feeling of being frozen in time.  Small town train stations provide a portal which bring the outside world to a community which is otherwise cutoff.  Functionally simple, nostalgic and full of ghosts from its past, THE LAST STATIONMASTER takes place in one of these train stations in the “middle” of the United States.    This town could be in Montana.  It could be Kansas.  What is important is that the train brought the world to this farming town and today is the last day that it will remain functional.   We get an intimate look at the people as they sort through their memories and face a future without its existance.  Their identities changing as they adapt to their country’s identity changing and progressing into a future where the town will cease to exist.

OUR TOWN meets Chekov and Bergman(with a little Strindberg, Ibsen & Sam Sheppard to boot).

Lilly Foye (45) and Bob Peterson (50) have worked together at the station for the past 15 years and have known each other as well as their families for generations.  Bob has been Stationmaster all his adult life having taken it over from his father and grandfather before him.  He is the “end of the line”.  Lilly started working there since the death of her husband as she was left to care for a farm and their children on her own.  The job was more or less “created for her” as often is the case in smaller towns trying to help and absorb local tragedies.  As we watch them go through the last day at the station, the train takes on a character of its own as it pulls in and out of the station at its appointed times bringing past events into being which have taken place at other “times” in the station’s history.

Rest of cast:

ANNIE FOYE-Lilly’s 16-year-old daughter

TOM FOYE– Lilly’s deceased husband (late 30’s)

YOUNG WOMAN – who exists in 1919