There’s nothing that broadcasts glamour in quite the way of “The Spirit of Ecstasy,” the winged-lady hood ornament gracing the grill-top of a Rolls-Royce. And for Libby, a girl of no means in small town Alabama, it’s about all she’s got going for her to elevate her schoolyard status.

In Zelda in the Backyard , the tender, affecting and humor-inflected one-woman play by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, it’s also a central metaphor for the Tennessee playwright to pace through the character’s days and years, particularly those involving her father in the 1970s.

Deftly directed ably by Miles Boinest for PURE Theatre, the absorbing 95-minute production, which runs at Cannon Street Arts Center through Aug. 16, leverages the impressive talents of actor Camille Lowman. As Libby, she recounts directly

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