'Down With the Wind' to be featured at reading
Two Coastal Carolina University faculty members are teaming up to put on a staged reading of an original one-act play at the Conway Library.Lee Bollinger of the Department of Communication is the author of the monologue Down With the Wind, a parody of Margaret Mitchell’s famous Civil War novel. Sandi Shackelford of the Department of Theatre plays the author of the fictional work at a press conference after winning the Pulitzer Prize.
Bollinger, author of 18 plays, studied theatre production at Penn State and has taught at Coastal since 1999. Her plays have been performed at Lincoln Center, Dartmouth College and at venues in New York City and many other cities.
Shackelford, who has taught at CCU since 1989, has had an extensive acting career. It includes productions at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia and Piccolo Spoleto Festivals in Charleston. A founding member of Atlantic Stage, the first Equity theatre in Myrtle Beach, she will appear in its production of Eleemosynary in April.
The performance of Bollinger’s play is the latest in a series of monthly staged readings by a group called The Play Readers. Its productions, which have attracted large community turnouts, are free and include an audience “talk back.” It gives play-goers a chance to discuss the work with the author and cast after a performance.
Down With The Wind will be performed Sunday, Feb. 28, at 2:30 p.m. at the Conway Public Library, 801 Main St. The Friends of the Library, who are sponsoring the reading, will provide refreshments.
For more information, call Jane Bunal at the library at 843-915-7323.
