The NewSouth Bookstore and Nora’s Salon Playhouse South are pleased to co-host a reading of They Must Be Women Now! by Nedra Pezold Roberts, directed by Jacqueline Allen Trimble, on Monday, February 12 at 7pm. Join us for this special event. The program is free but space is limited, so please RSVP to reservations@norasplayhouse.org indicating the number of people in your party.
Nedra Pezold Roberts is an Atlanta-based dramatist. After several decades teaching English and drama she took early retirement to write her own plays rather than teach those of others. Her plays have had production runs and staged readings coast to coast and have won numerous awards.
They Must Be Women Now! is a contemporary take on Euripides’ Antigone. In the play, a family of Southern women struggles to discern what needs to be buried, to understand the difference between the impulse to hide from pain and the strength to lay that pain to rest. These women are shaped by their time, their culture, and their individual journeys. It falls to them to discover themselves — and become women now.