3rd Annual Spring Play Reading Series
April 16 – 19, 2008 at 7pm each evening
Free and Open to the Public!

Southwest Arts Center
915 New Hope Road
Atlanta, GA 30331

True Colors will read four plays during the reading series this spring; three of them are old classics we’ll revisit and one is a new work. The Play Reading Series is an opportunity for True Colors’ artistic team to hear a play and to get feedback from the audience after the reading. For the new play it’s a very important process for the playwright to hear the characters come to life and allow for adjustments, rewrites, and fine-tuning.

April 16
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
Directed by Todd Kreidler

In the midst of a summer of boredom and loneliness, Frankie is madly jealous of her brothers impending marriage. Being ostracized by her peers, she spends most of her time with Bernice, the black housekeeper and mother figure to the motherless Frankie, and her six-year-old cousin, John Henry.

April 17
The Rest of Me by Eugene Lee
Directed by Derrick Sanders

It's the story of a black woman Texas Ranger who on the eve of her retirement finally solves her most important case. This will be the first public reading of Lee’s new play.
Contains strong language, not suitable for children under 12.

April 18
Wedding Band by Alice Childress
Directed by Andrea Frye

Wedding Band confronts racism and depicts a tragedy involving an interracial love affair. Set in 1918 South Carolina, Julia a black woman is in love a white man, Herman.
The couple wants to escape the south and move to the north so they will be able to marry freely. Contains strong language, not suitable for children under 12.

April 19
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner by William Rose Adapted for stage by Todd Kreidler
Directed by Kenny Leon

Todd Kreidler, True Colors Associate Artistic Director adapts for the stage William Rose’s Academy Award-winning screenplay about an interracial marriage, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. The 1967 landmark movie about a young white woman introducing her liberal parents to her black fiancé and their dismay to the relationship; her fiancé’s parents are equally shocked by their mixed union. The story is a masterful examination of society’s prejudices.