Sunday, October 13, 2:00pm
Nevada Theatre, Nevada City, California
$30 premium reserved seating
$20 general admission

Written by Lynne Kaufman
Starring Lorri Holt
Directed by Warren David Keith & Jayne Wenger
WINNER “BEST FULL LENGTH”
2020 MARSH STREAM INTERNATIONAL SOLO FEST
PRODUCTION & PERFORMANCE

Sunday performance includes a talk-back after the show with playwright Lynne Kaufman moderated by Sands Hall.

Sylvia Plath, renowned poet, returns to her burial place in West Yorkshire, England to view the fourth replacement of her headstone. The previous ones have been defaced by feminists who chiseled out her married name, claiming it was Sylvia’s husband, Ted Hughes, who caused her suicide. Did he? Was taking her own life at 30 a good career move? Would she do it again? And what does it have to do with us today?

LYNNE KAUFMAN is a nationally award-winning playwright who wrote “Acid Test: The Many Incarnations of Ram Dass, and “Two Minds” which both played at The Marsh to great success. She has had more than twenty full-length plays produced at such venues as The Magic Theatre, Theatreworks Silicon Valley, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Fountain Theatre in LA, and The Abingdon Theatre in N.Y.C. Most recently she wrote and The Marsh produced “Extreme Acts”, as well as “Poetic Justice”, the latter about the tumultuous life of poet Robert Lowell (played by Charles Shaw Robinson), and his marriage to writer and literary critic Elizabeth Hardwick (whom Holt also portrayed in the Marsh Berkeley production).

LORRI HOLT was a leading actress in the S.F. Bay Area for more than three decades, where she portrayed dozens of roles for Berkeley Rep, A.C.T., Marin Theatre Company, San Francisco Playhouse, San Jose Rep, Theatreworks, The Marsh, and many commercial projects. As a company member of the groundbreaking Eureka Theatre, she originated the role of Harper Pitt in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America”. With poet, memoirist and playwright Zack Rogow she co-wrote, and stars in, “Colette Uncensored” about the life and work of the famous (and infamous) French writer and actress, which has been performed & produced in San Francisco, Berkeley, NYC, Portland, Oregon, London and most recently, Jakarta & Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and here at the Nevada Theatre in 2023. Their play has now been translated into Catalàn, Bahasa Indonesian, French and Italian.