Gangly, outspoken twelve-year-old Frankie Addams yearns to belong to the “we of me,” and in a Southern kitchen, pours her heart out to the family cook, Berenice. One of the most beautiful plays ever written about loneliness and love.
An LA Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring June Angela as Janice and Helen; John Cothran, Jr., as T. T. Williams; Ruby Dee as Bernice Sadie Brown; Daniel Henson as John Henry West; Victor Mack as Honey Camden Brown; Jena Malone as Frankie Addams; Lawrence Pressman as Mr. Addams; Jacquelyn Riggs as Mrs. West and Doris; and Tegan West as Jarvis and Barney MacKean. Directed by Judyann Elder. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.
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Carson McCullers (1917–1967) was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and Clock without Hands. Born in Columbus, Georgia, she became a promising pianist and enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York when she was seventeen, but lacking money for tuition, she never attended classes. Instead she studied writing at Columbia University, which ultimately led to The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, the novel that made her an overnight literary sensation.