Join us for readings of two plays by Mark Clayton Southers, artistic director of Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre. One of these plays will be selected for a full performance by Theater-by-the-Grove in March based on audience response.
Miss Julie, Clarissa, and John (Thursday and Saturday) was inspired by August Strindberg’s groundbreaking 1888 naturalistic drama Miss Julie. Southers relocates the action from Sweden to a Reconstruction-era Virginia plantation.
Nine Days in the Sun (Friday and Sunday) takes the audience to a world where the racial balance has shifted and, as a result, the social order in America is turned upside down. The idea is simple. What if dark skin were the desired tone and the beige/pinkish color we call white was a liability?