Wallace Too Productions and The Filigree Theatre present the staged reading of At the Edge of Nowhere, Sabrina Wallace's debut one-act stage play, on Sunday, September 27, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. at Hyde Park Theatre in Austin.
What happens when a seventeen-year-old girl discovers she is pregnant in the weeks following the overturning of Roe v. Wade?
Set in a small rural Texas town, At the Edge of Nowhere follows Sadie as she carries a secret that could mean her future is no longer her own. As she navigates family expectations, town gossip, religious judgment, and political division, the voices around her become a chorus of fear and pressure that threatens to drown out her own thoughts.
“At the Edge of Nowhere was born from a conversation with my daughter, Emma, who was twenty when the Dobbs decision was handed down,” said playwright Sabrina Wallace. “We started with a terrifying question that quickly opened up many more: What goes through the mind of a young woman who discovers she is pregnant? Does she want to be a mother? Does she want to be pregnant? What options does she have, and how much time does she have to decide? Sadie’s story grew from those questions and from exploring women’s choices in post-Roe Texas, where restrictive laws, religion, politics, and fear can make it harder for a young woman to make a decision that is truly her own.”
Directed by Elizabeth V. Newman, the reading is presented as part of The Filigree Theatre's Stage One Reading Series, a workshop series dedicated to the development of new works by established and emerging playwrights and screenwriters.
