The stories of our mothers are overshadowed by our fathers, in a man’s world, where language is not the mother-tongue but rather, the father-tongue.
Grace has always lived in the shadow of her father. On her final day of life, Grace conjures up her mother, Jeanette, and her child-self, young Grace, and the three women take us on an odyssey from Italy to America that spans time, place and the language of her mother-tongue. The backdrop of the play shifts from the grittiness of Morristown, New Jersey, in the early 1900s, to the magic of Long Branch where Jeanette and Young Grace, each summer for two weeks, can escape from the harshness of a man’s world.
Grace Revised was one of three plays selected for the 2022 Women Playwrights Festival, Speranza Theatre Company.
The evening includes a post-reading conversation with the author.
Directed by John Pietrowski
Thanks to a generous grant from the Smart Foundation, the Madison Arts and Culture Alliance, in partnership with MCAC, is presenting concert readings of seven new works by women playwrights from New Jersey.
DOMINIQUE CIERI is an award-winning playwright, master teaching artist, Dramatist Guild member and two-time recipient of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation/New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Playwriting Fellowship. She is a graduate of Rose Bruford College in Kent, England, recipient of the State University of New York Chancellor’s Medal of Excellence for Scholarship and Creative Activities and holds an MFA in Creative Writing at Goddard College, Vermont. Dominique’s plays have been produced in New Jersey, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Baltimore and most recently at Phillips’ Mill, Pennsylvania.