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Lillian, Paula. Carson.
A reading of a new play by John Barrow
with
Rebecka Ray*
Kelly Taylor*
Donnah Welby*
*Actors Equity Association
Directed by Susanna Frazer
Sunday, March 26 at 5pm
Refreshments provided! (suggested donation $5 at the door)
Refreshments provided! (suggested donation $5 at the door)
The Morningside Players Theater Space 100 LaSalle St. (at Broadway), lower level
Lillian Smith: famous in the 1940s as the best-selling author of Strange Fruit (1944) and Killers of the Dream (1949), she was a fierce if ladylike opponent of segregation in the South.
Carson McCullers: the prodigy of American letters, known for her novels The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and The Member of the Wedding, she relished the role of outsider and provocateur.
Paula Snelling: Lillian's life partner. Behind every great man there is a great woman, the saying goes. Behind Lillian Smith there was Paula.
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On Nov. 17, 1953 Smith and Snelling were at their home in the Georgia mountains, while Smith recovered from a mastectomy. A phone call announced the imminent, unexpected arrival of Carson McCullers for a visit. This day would change their lives.