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The Word
As part of our mission to foster the development of new plays, The Road hosts readings on Mondays at 7:30pm that are open to the public and tickets are pay what you can. Readings are followed by a talkback with the playwright (if available). Check back often for new additions to the lineup and make sure to follow us for updates and reminders.
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August 11th, 7.30pm
Lear In Tulsa
Written by Steven Lee Morris
Directed by Carlos LacamaraFEATURING Frank Collison, Donna Simone, Inger Tudor, Allison Blaize, Brian Graves, Noelle Mercer
In the midst of retiring, Lewis, an aging White progressive artistic director of a theater in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has cast a White actress to play Cordelia (Shakespeare’s Cinderella) in his swan song production of King Lear, which he’s both starring in and directing. Meanwhile, he’s cast Cordelia’s vile sisters with People of Color. When his incoming replacement to run the theater, a Black woman, points out that his obliviousness to this racist casting choice will likely stain his legacy, he panics. If they recast the role, what will Tulsa’s MAGA crowd do to his theater? And if he doesn’t . . . ?
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