Wednesday’s Child

Wednesday’s Child tells the story of Britt, a white working-class Midwesterner. She begins a career on the bottom rung of an industry remade by Latinos, whose population growth is fueling that of America, and is coming to understand what it means to be outnumbered. She and her family struggle to navigate a new and confusing terrain in America, frightened that whites seem to be losing their majority status and where demographic anxiety is contributing to many of the social fissures polarizing the US - from immigration and their town’s influx of Spanish workers to welfare reform to the election of President Trump. Finally, at a crossroads, Britt is faced with adapting or succumbing to the dark forces of violence in reaction to a world that has brought anger, frustration, and disenfranchisement.

Stay tuned for a staged reading of Wednesday’s Child happening this fall.

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