Salt Lake City gets its own hearing of Women+ on the Edge of Democracy on Monday, November 2, when Salt Lake Acting Company stages a free reading of seven of the anthology's short plays at 7 p.m.
The plays come from a commission led by the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington, Vermont, with the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize as its partner. Thirty-four writers were each asked for a ten-minute play or monologue answering the same pair of questions: where American democracy stands now, seen from home and from abroad, and what history, the wider world or the future might have to offer at this moment.
SLAC has not yet published the full running order for its evening. Its listing names three of the writers on the bill: Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, Sarah Ruhl and Heidi Schreck.
Admission costs nothing, but seats have to be reserved. SLAC subscribers can book now, and reservations open to the general public on Monday, October 26, at 11 a.m. The company asks audiences to take only the seats they need and to let the box office know if their plans change.
Utah is one stop on a much wider map. The Flynn opens the project today, October 24, with an all-day premiere of the complete cycle in Burlington, led by Adriane Lenox and Geneva Carr, and more than a hundred theaters and organizations across 41 states, Washington, D.C., and abroad are presenting the plays for free between October 23 and November 3, ahead of the midterm elections. Theatre Communications Group publishes the plays as an anthology on November 4.
Seats can be reserved through Salt Lake Acting Company's event page.
