The stories of our mothers are overshadowed by our fathers, in a man’s world, where language is not the mother-tongue but rather, the father-tongue.
Grace has always lived in the shadow of her father. On her final day of life, Grace conjures up her mother, Jeanette, and her child-self, young Grace, and the three women take us on an odyssey from Italy to America that spans time, place and the language of her mother-tongue. The backdrop of the play shifts from the grittiness of Morristown, New Jersey, in the early 1900s, to the magic of Long Branch where Jeanette and Young Grace, each summer for two weeks, can escape from the harshness of a man’s world.
Grace Revised was one of three plays selected for the 2022 Women Playwrights Festival, Speranza Theatre Company.
The evening includes a post-reading conversation with the author.
A Concert Reading of a New Play by Dominique Cieri
Directed by John Pietrowski
Sunday, October 16, 2022
3 pm
Recommended donation: $10
Tickets available at TicketLeap.com
DOMINIQUE CIERI is an award-winning playwright, master teaching artist, Dramatist Guild member and two-time recipient of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation/New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Playwriting Fellowship. She is a graduate of Rose Bruford College in Kent, England, recipient of the State University of New York Chancellor’s Medal of Excellence for Scholarship and Creative Activities and holds an MFA in Creative Writing at Goddard College, Vermont. Dominique’s plays have been produced in New Jersey, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Baltimore and most recently at Phillips’ Mill, Pennsylvania.