Society Fundraiser - Last Night and the Night Before

“A play about the tremendous, enduring component of love in our lives.” Playwright Donnetta Lavinia Grays

When Monique and her 10-year-old daughter Samantha show up unexpectedly on her sister’s Brooklyn doorstep, it shakes up Rachel and her partner Nadima’s orderly New York lifestyle. Monique is on the run from deep trouble and brings their family’s Southern roots with her, grabbing hold of Rachel’s life more ferociously than she could have ever imagined. Poetic, powerful and remarkably funny, this 2017 Colorado New Play Summit featured play explores the struggle between the responsibilities that are expected of us and the choices we actually end up making.

At the root of this play is the daughter of a small town that is lost to the current sweeping epidemic of heroin abuse in this country. She is a mother who tries desperately to break a cycle of despair for her own daughter. Last Night and The Night Before is a drama infused with laughter, lightness, poetry and hope. It speaks to so many small towns across this country that have lost brilliant children due to lack of industry and economic opportunity within those communities.

There will be a talk back immediately following the play in the theater with discussant Paula Bernstein, PhD and moderator Pam Haglund, PsyD.  (We do not have a reception this year and there is no fee for the talk back) 

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The deadline to reserve tickets is January 18, 2019. Tickets may sell out.