Unpublished Hurston: Zora Neale Hurston Play Read at Library

摘要

Big Sweet, Dicey, Lonnie and My Honey took center stage at the Coolidge Auditorium on Dec. 11 and 12, when 19 performers from the Arena Stage did a concert reading of Zora Neale Hurston's unpublished play Polk County after only nine hours of rehearsal time. The event, which nearly filled the Coolidge Auditorium for both performances, was a co-production of Arena Stage in Washington and the Library of Congress in celebration of the Library's Bicentennial and the 50th anni- versary of Arena Stage. It was made possible in part through an award to Alice Birney, the specialist in American literary and cultural history in the Manuscript Division, from the James H. Billington Endowment, funded by the generous support of Madison Council members. Abraham and Julienne Krasnoff.