Praise The Lord - Play Reading
Samesame But Different presents the third year of the Praise the Lord playwright residency in collaboration with Auckland Pride and Auckland Theatre Company, inspired by Robert Lord.
As the opening event of the residency, we're excited to host a reading event of a new work by a local queer writer. This will be a staged reading of the play or an excerpt.
It’s 1907 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington. Painter Edith Bendall has begrudgingly returned home at her father's behest, either to wed or be struck from the family fortune. Edith finds herself enamoured with a young author, Katherine Mansfield, and temptation soon leads to a tangle of lies, lust and unlaced corsets. Paranoia mounts as the two women risk everything for stolen hours in each other's arms. As custom hedges them in, Edith is torn — are the consequences of loving each other too dangerous in this tightly-laced society?
