Peccadillo Presents Staged Reading of Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding 11/29

The Peccadillo Theater Company presents The Plays-You-Should-Know-And-Probably-Don't Reading Series: Carson McCullers' THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING

The Member of the Wedding (1950) is an adaptation of Carson McCullers' classic novella about the coming-of-age of a young girl struggling to understand adolescence and her emerging feelings of adulthood. Set in the South in 1944, the story focuses on Frankie Adams and her relationship with the family cook, Berenice Sadie Brown. McCullers herself adapted the novella for a Broadway production directed by Harold Clurman. It opened on January 5, 1950, at the Empire Theatre, where it ran for 501 performances. The cast included Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, and Brandon de Wilde.

Directed by Peccadillo Artistic Director, Dan Wackerman, the reading is at 3pm on Monday, November 29th, at Theatre at Saint Clement's (423 W. 46th Street, between Ninth & Tenth Avenues). Admission is free.

By Invitation Only. For more information, go to www.thepeccadillo.com.

For over 15 years The Peccadillo Theater Company has been producing revivals of classic American plays such as Counsellor-at-Law by Elmer Rice (OBIE and Lucille Lortel Awards), Room Service by John Murray and Allen Boretz and The Ladies of the Corridor by Dorothy Parker and Arnaud d'Usseau. Occasionally, Peccadillo also produces original material such as Zero Hour (Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance) and the MAC Award nominated The Talk of the Town, which ran for over a year in the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel and has toured nationally.

The cast of The Member of the Wedding includes Roz Ryan, currently on Broadway as "big mama" in Chicago; Rodney Hicks, currently on Broadway in The Scottsboro Boys; Lori Gardner, fresh from The Deep Throat Sex Scandal, as well as Andre De Shields, Frank Blocker, Ben Gibbons, Scott G. Morse, Novella Nelson, Georgia Osborne, Jessica Polsky and Emily Spires.

The Southern Literary Trail, which honors Southern writers, and The Carson McCullers Center of Columbus State University are hosting a champagne reception immediately following the reading.