The Play
"White icing is not yellow, it’s white. That’s why you only allow only the whites into the bowl," Dottie tells her daughter as she tries to mold her into the perfect young woman in Bekah Brunstetter’s darkly comic new play You May Go Now, which will be the third featured play in the Centenary Stage Company’s Women Playwrights Series on Wednesday, April 23rd at 7:30 PM at the Centenary Theatre.

Daughter Betty’s 18th birthday will mark her transition into the wide world, but will she be ready? A reappearing father and a mysterious visitor suggest a less than perfect past in this domestic domicile.

The script-in-hand performance of You May Go Now will be presented on Wednesday, April 23th at 7:30 PM at the Centenary Theatre.

Refreshments and lively discussion with the playwright and cast follow the presentation. Admission to the series is by donation and reservations are requested.

Playwright Bekah Brunstetter

Admission to WPS events is by donation and reservations are requested.

About the Playwright
North Carolinian Bekah Brunstetter received her BA in Theater with an Honors Thesis in Fiction Writing from UNC Chapel Hill, and she holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from The New School for Drama in NY. Her works have been honored by The Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Award, The Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival, KCACTF, Actor’s Theater of Louisville, the Alliance Theater and the Cherry Lane Mentorship Program (nominee).

Her play To Nineveh received Six New York Innovative Theatre Awards in September 2006, including Best New Full Length Play. Her play Sick won the 2006 Samuel French Short Play Competition. Most recently, she was honored as a finalist for the Alliance Theater’s Kendeda graduate playwriting award for her play Green, a semi-finalist for the 2007 O’Neill Playwright’s Conference, and the 2007 Princess Grace Award. Her plays are published by Samuel French, United Stages and Smith & Krauss, and she is a contributing member of the Dramatist’s Guild and the Playwright’s Center.

Reservations / Pricing
Free and open to the public!
Refreshments & Discussion with Playwright & Cast follow the presentation.
To reserve, call 908-979-0900. All donations support the continuing developmental programs of the Women Playwrights Series.
For more information contact the CSC Offices at 908-979-0900, or see our Women Playwrights Series page.

About Women Playwrights Series
CSC's Women Playwrights Series, now in it's 16th season, is dedicated to providing a working forum for the unique and underserved voice of women writing for the theatre today. One of the few programs of its kind, taking new plays from the development process on to full production, the WPS has been hailed by playwrights as unique and essential to the development of their craft and work. The WPS offers writers the opportunity to work with a professional director and actors during a short rehearsal period, which culminates in a script-in-hand performance for a public audience. Discussions following the presentation further enable the playwright's development of the work, as they receive feedback from the audience. Each year one play from the WPS is selected to go on to full production in the Centenary Stage Company main-stage season. Audiences in the 2008 series will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite work in consideration of production.

Catherine Rust
Program Director
Centenary Stage Company Playwright Series
908-979-0900 x5