Classic Stage Company's The Rediscovery Readings series, spotlighting plays by female playwrights who shaped American theatre, continues December 2 at 7 PM with Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding.
Directed by Francesca Sabel, the 7 PM reading at CSC’s Lynn F. Angelson Theater features Kayli Carter (Bad Education), Lincoln Cohen (Appropriate), Crystal Finn (Birthday Candles), Hampton Fluker (All My Sons), Andy Grotelueschen (CSC’s Assassins), Jake Horowitz (Hester Street), April Matthis (Mary Jane), Caleb Reese Paul (FBI), Bri Laurelle Queen (The Bluest Eye), Ron Scott (Superior Donuts), and Fina Strazza (Matilda the Musical).
Adapted by McCullers from her own novel, The Member of the Wedding premiered on Broadway in 1950 and ran for over 500 performances.
The play is set in a small Southern town in 1945 as 12-year-old Frankie (Strazza) begins to yearn for something more. Her closest companion, housekeeper Berenice (Matthis), strives to give this friendless child an understanding of the reality of the world around her, and the larger challenges that face people outside her own front yard. The original production starred stage and screen legends Julie Harris and Ethel Waters.
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