Local Reading of Award-Winning Play By Theatre Alumna, This Weekend Only!
Rachel Lynette, playwright and alumna of the Department of Theatre.
Stage Eighteen in Fayetteville will host a reading of the play Abortion Road Trip by Department of Theatre alumna Rachel Lynette (M.F.A. in Playwriting, 2015) this Sunday. The reading will begin at 6 p.m. Stage Eighteen is located at 18 E. Center Street, and admission is free.
The play follows two sisters, Minnie and Lexa, as Lexa attempts to decide whether or not she can go through with an abortion. On the way, they discuss all the baggage they carry with them, what it means to be a woman today, and joke about Doctor Who and which inventors they'd like to punch in the face.
Rachel Lynett has a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and an M.F.A. from University of Arkansas' J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. In addition to the success of Abortion Roadtrip, she was recently invited to 2017 Orlando Shakespeare New Play Festival and received a 2017 Kilroys honorable mention for her play Well-Intentioned White People.
She was also a finalist for 2017 Downstage Left Playwriting Residency and a semi-finalist for the O'Neill Playwright's Conference in 2016. Other credits include Good Bad People (finalist for Equity Library Theatre-Chicago) Choosing You (part of the CulturalDC Source Festival 2016), and Breathe Me In (finalist for the Kernodle Play Award 2016). She currently works as the production manager at Arts Center of the Ozarks and is a AIE rostered teaching artist through Arkansas Arts Council.
Abortion Road Trip had its workshop premiere in July 2017 at Capital Fringe in Washington D.C., where it was produced by Theatre Prometheus and won Best Comedy. It was produced again by Theatre Prometheus and presented at the Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival as a full production this past weekend. It was also a semifinalist for The Bridge Project 2017.
For more information, please visit the Facebook event for Abortion Road Trip: A Staged Reading.
Contacts
Ashley Cohea, business manager, University Theatre
Department of Theatre
479-575-6067,
acohea@uark.edu
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