Wordsmyth Reading Series: Views on Race

Wordsmyth Theater Co. presents Wordsmyth Reading Series: Views on Race. Three readings of plays on race by three Houston playwrights! Hosted by Stages Repertory Theatre.

SCHEDULE OF READINGS:

Saturday, June 11

3:00 pm Complaint Box and/or Good Times, by Abby Koenig
When an unexpected guest visits their beach house, three estranged sisters – who have come together to clean it out – are forced to confront their sense of identity and their relationship to race.

7:30 pm All the Dying Voices, by Reginald Edmund
A black teenage boy is found hanging from a swing set and protesters are convinced that a white cop lynched him. A young black up-and-coming district attorney must resolve the case before a fast-approaching mayoral election.

Sunday, June 12

2:00 pm Rebel Yell, by Ted Swindley
Set against the backdrop of a Civil War Confederate veterans’ home in 1920, Rebel Yell tells a shocking story about racism in the Jim Crow South.  Caught between his white supremacist grandfather and his liberal, anti-racist father, a young man is forced to choose between the two most important men in his life with devastating results.