_edited.png)

Masters in Fine Arts from
Mary Baldwin University
Observatory Staged Reading Series

The Widow of Valencia
Dir. Sydney Brooke Crittenden
Leonarda, a beautiful widow in the town of Valencia, Spain, struggles with her commitment to her late husband and the urge to begin the next chapter of her life. She becomes enamored with a man, Camilo, and comes up with a plan to see him while hiding her identity. They meet in the dark with the help of her waiting man and woman. As Camilo schemes to find out the identity of his lover, many plots ensue as other suitors attempt to woo Leonarda. In this Spanish Golden Age play, inspired by the Greek myth Cupid and Psyche, the characters pursue what they want while navigating around the structures that would otherwise restrain them. After all, “What won’t a determined woman do for the sake of her pleasure?”

Very Small Trouble
Dir. Peter Kirwan and Megan Parlett
Research and Development of a New Play!
Very Small Trouble dramatizes a series of real-life early modern performance-protests led by the women of a small town after Puritan attempts to shut down the May Day festivities.
Performs @ 7:30 PM on Monday, October 27th in the Blackfriars Playhouse

