A Double Bill of Forbidden Love

SOMETHING UNSPOKEN

By Tennessee Williams 

"Whom can you trust in this world, whom can you ever rely on?"

1950s Mississippi - wealthy spinster Cornelia Scott is waiting for a phone call. Today is the annual election of the Confederate Daughters - surely this will be the year she is rightfully elected Regent. And to make things even more special, today is the 15th anniversary of her secretary Grace’s arrival. As a gift Cornelia has bought her 15 roses - 'a rose for every year, a year for every rose'. After all, Grace is more of a companion than a secretary. If only Grace was a little more forthcoming with her feelings. And if only the phone would ring… 

Originally written as a companion piece with Suddenly Last Summer, Something Unspoken is a short, comic tale of suppressed love and desire from the one of the 20th Century’s greatest playwrights. 

ARTEFACT

By Rena Brannan

In 1965, Betty Ford discovers an unopened love letter from her old college roommate. As she walks along the Potomac, she thinks about her chosen life and the life she could have led.