Gangly, outspoken 12-year-old Frankie Addams yearns to belong to the "we of me," and in a Southern kitchen, pours her heart out to the family cook, Berenice. One of the most beautiful plays ever written about loneliness and love.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
June Angela as Janice and Helen
John Cothran Jr. as T.T. Williams
Ruby Dee as Bernice Sadie Brown
Daniel Henson as John Henry West
Victor Mack as Honey Camden Brown
Jena Malone as Frankie Addams
Lawrence Pressman as Mr. Addams
Jacquelyn Riggs as Mrs. West and Doris
Tegan West as Jarvis and Barney MacKean
Directed by Judyann Elder. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

Portrait

Carson McCullers (1917-1967) was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and Clock Without Hands. Born in Columbus, Georgia, on February 19, 1917, she became a promising pianist and enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York when she was seventeen, but lacking money for tuition, she never attended classes. Instead she studied writing at Columbia University, which ultimately led to The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, the novel that made her an overnight literary sensation. On September 29, 1967, at age fifty, she died in Nyack, New York, where she is buried.