Monday, February 8, 2010 at 6 - 9pm

Mrs. Streeter

Written by

Merrill D. Jones

Directed by

Ward Nixon

Featuring

Terrance Epps Larry Floyd Fulton Hodges

Kimberly JaJuan Kimberlee Monroe

Malek O'Galvez Dee Spencer Valarie Tekosky

The African American Playwrights Exchange (AAPEX) & Jaz Dorsey will present a reading of the 2008 AAPEX Award winner for Best Family Drama, Mrs. Streeter, written by Merrill Jones, on Monday, February 8th at the Dramatist Guild. The reading, directed by Ward Nixon, will feature Terrance Epps (Hampton Cole), Larry Floyd (Jeffrey Streeter), Fulton Hodges (Charles Streeter), Kimberly JaJuan (Grace Streeter), R J Kennedy (Narrator), Kimberlee Monroe (Irene Streeter), Malek O'Galvez (Tyler Anderson), Dee Spencer (Sarah Anderson) & Valarie Tekosky (Rita Harris). Mrs. Streeter was given a first reading at Pearl Studios in NYC, in 2008.

Mrs. Irene Streeter is a small, but dominant, African-American woman, who obsessively directs the lives of her three grown children. She is quick, sharp-tonguedeven witty at timesbut wholly unaware of the folly & gravity of her manipulations. Born in North Carolina in the early nineteen twenties, Mrs. Streeter keeps the pain of racial inequality at arms reach, never wishing to be white, but noting the difference in the quality of her life if she were whiter. For her, the difficulties of race & sex might have been endurable had she been more strongly rooted. She is unable to shake the pain of her fathers abandonment & her mothers subsequent rejection & the hardships of race & sex become insurmountable & she uses her three children as a means of offsetting an unbearably inequitable existence. In the end, Irene, static & fixed, must deal with the most excruciating pain of all: the rejection of her children, as they move beyond the space where she cannot, for their own happiness.

DATE: Monday, February 8, 2010 @ 6-9pm

THEATRE: Dramatist Guild " 1501 Broadway " Suite 701

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