A celebration of the works of Edna Ferber including salon readings of 5 brand new one-act plays adapted from Ferber's short stories
A lecture on the story behind "Showboat" told by Ferber's great niece and biographer, Julie Gilbert, and a concert reading of "Selina Peake" written by the Pulitzer prize winning playwright, Horton Foote, based on the Pulitzer prize winning novel, "So Big".
Thursday, May 31 at 8pm - The Story Behind Showboat - as told by Ferber's great niece, Julie Gilbert, who was named after Julie in Show Boat. The novel that was published in 1926 was an immediate best seller, as it quickly followed Ferber's Pulitzer Prize winning 1924 novel, So Big. The novel of Show Boat was based on research that Ferber did while living on a show boat in North Carolina. It is a considerably darker tale than the groundbreaking 1927 musical conceived by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein.
Friday, June 1 & Saturday, June 2 at 8pm - Salon readings
Sunday, June 3 at 4pm - The festival finale is a concert reading of Selina Peake
