Zoom Play Reading in collaboration with the Chelsea District Library
Saturday, May 21, 2022 @ 10:30am-
“Stick Fly” by Lydia R. Diamond
Directed by Lynch R. Travis
Featuring: Brandon Alvión, Lulu Dahl, Reina Mystique, Meghan VanArsdalen, Monrico Ward, and Jonathan West
The affluent, African-American LeVay family is gathering at their Martha’s Vineyard home for the weekend, and brothers Kent and Flip have each brought their respective ladies home to meet the parents for the first time. Kent’s fiancée, Taylor, an academic whose absent father was a prominent author, struggles to fit into the LeVay’s upper-crust lifestyle. Kimber, on the other hand, is a self-described WASP who works with inner-city school children, fits in more easily with the family. Joining these two couples are the demanding LeVay patriarch, Joe, and Cheryl, the daughter of the family’s longtime housekeeper. As the two newcomers butt heads over issues of race and privilege, long-standing family tensions bubble under the surface and reach a boiling point when secrets are revealed.
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“Stick Fly” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. and was developed in part at Chicago Dramatists, originally produced by Congo Square Theatre and subsequently produced by McCarter Theatre Center. A further developmental production directed by Kenny Leon, was produced jointly by Arena Stage and the Huntington Theatre Company.