2024 Connect Play Reading Series Season
MAR 15-23, 2024
Four of Harvard University's brightest—a surgeon, an actress, a psychologist, and a neuro-psychiatrist—are all interested in different aspects of the brain, particularly how it responds to race. But like all smart people, they are also searching for love, success, and identity in their own lives.
Smart People shows that no matter how well we think we understand the influence of race andhuman interaction, it still manages to get in the way of genuine communication and connection.
MAY 10-18, 2024
Tiny Beautiful Things personifies the questions and answers that “Sugar” was publishing online from 2010-2012. When the struggling writer was asked to take over the unpaid, anonymous position of advice columnist, Strayed used empathy and her personal experiences to help those seeking guidance for obstacles both large and small.
This is a play about reaching when you’re stuck, healing when you’re broken, and finding the courage to take on the questions that have no answers.
SEPT 13-21, 2024
Della makes cakes, not judgment calls—those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to North Carolina to get married, and the fiancé is actually a fiancée, Della’s life gets turned upside down. She can’t really make a cake for such a wedding, can she? For the first time in her life, Della has to think for herself.
NOV 1-9, 2024
It starts with the sound of a spoon scraping against glass and the wet noise of lips smacking together. June and Lurie have a haunting new houseguest – and she’s ravenously hungry. They do their best to keep her fed and happy, but Beatrice always demands more. As she burrows deeper and deeper into their lives, the couple faces a horrific question: What will it cost to exorcise Beatrice forever?
Kirsten Greenidge's spine-chilling gothic tale, about a contemporary Black couple haunted by the ghost of a young white girl, deftly explores questions of race, class and the American Dream.
A FREE COMMUNITY EVENT • All Readings/Talkbacks: 7:30-10PM
