2nd Wednesday Theater: The Trip to Bountiful

About 2nd Wednesday Theater: The Trip to Bountiful...2nd Wednesday Theater: a monthly play-reading of rarely-performed classics, undiscovered gems, old chestnuts, and exciting new works.

In January, we will read The Trip to Bountiful, by Horton Foote. Presented by Kim Berner.

This moving play tells the story of Carrie Watts, an elderly woman, who longs to escape the cramped Houston apartment where she lives with her protective son, Ludie, and her authoritarian daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. Carrie wants to return to her beloved hometown of Bountiful, Texas, one final time before she dies. While Ludie is at work and Jessie Mae is at the drugstore, Carrie escapes to the bus station and befriends a young woman named Thelma. The new friends travel toward Bountiful together, but when Carrie arrives in nearby Harrison, Texas, she begins to learn that her beloved town isn’t the same as she remembered it.

“I’ve never been more deeply moved by a theatrical production of any kind.” —Wall Street Journal

"…the rarest of theater experiences, an evening which will prove an indelible memory…Horton Foote has done, and done beautifully, the one thing it is important for a playwright to do. That is, provide the disciplined material for expert actors to completely capture an audience and hold it through the evening." —NY World-Telegram

Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 7:30pm
in the Art Studio
FREE admission!