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Each month we present performance readings of provocative and entertaining scripts
by some of the most interesting women playwrights of the past and present.
A brief discussion with the director and cast follows each reading.

Admission is free; donations are welcome.

Friday, December 11 and Saturday, December 12, 2009 * Special time - 8:00 pm * THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Jay Presson Allen Adapted from the novel by Muriel Spark Echo is proud to welcome Ronnie Claire Edwards, well-known television actress and author, as she relives one of her favorite stage roles. “I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life!“ So declares the iconoclastic Miss Jean Brodie. Muriel Spark's famous novel is the basis of this equally famous stage adaptation by Jay Presson Allen (an alumna of Dallas' "Miss Hockaday’s School for Young Ladies").

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 WHAT USE ARE FLOWERS? by Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry won the praise of critics and audiences with her award-winning 1959 drama A Raisin in the Sun. Echo has unearthed her 1961 teleplay What Use Are Flowers? This fable about a hermit who discovers a group of wild children who are the only survivors of nuclear holocaust raises provocative questions about what it means to be civilized. Written just a few years before Hansberry's untimely death, this unusual play is one of only a handful produced by this talented writer.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 THE HOLLOW by Agatha Christie The world's most acclaimed mystery writer and mistress of suspense has numerous, rarely produced treasures. Join us this October as Echo "unearths" The Hollow, a whodunit with all the classic ingredients. A weekend house party brings an array of assorted relations to the grand country estate of Lady Lucy Angkatell. During Friday night cocktails, a glamorous stranger arrives and a mood of jealousy, hatred and intrigue soon colours the happy gathering ... before a gun shot is heard! Through the course of the drama, a complex web of love affairs and past secrets is slowly revealed.

STILL FUN, STILL FIERCE, STILL FREE!

Titles subject to change pending rights and availability.

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