Keely and Du

Play by Jane Martin
Directed by Kristina Melsheimer
Artistic Direction by Michael Siebrass

Show Times

September 1 – September 2, 2023

 Friday @ 7 pm
 Saturday @ 2 pm & 7 pm

About

Keely and Du is a 1993 play by Jane Martin that is just as relevant and thought-provoking today as it was 30 years ago. The story centers on Du, a right-to-life activist, and Keely, a pregnant rape victim whom Du is confining. Through the course of the play, the two women transcend their circumstances and the ideological issues that separate them to forge a relationship, but one without any easy answers. Who is accountable? What is the extent of individual freedom? What are a rape victim’s rights? What are a Christian’s realities of procreation? Their passionate stories exist on the extreme edge of everyday reality.  This is a mind-probing issue play with a gripping human face.

Winner of the 1993 American Theatre Critics Association Award, Best New Play
Finalist for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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Sponsors

Carol MacCurdy & Tom Nuckols

Show Sponsors

Gina Kirk

Ubu Season Sponsor

Pam & Mitch Nichter

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