The Script Society Reads "Superior Donuts" by Tracy Letts

The Script Society is a collaborative group reading of dramatic works, led by Roxanne Baker. No experience required! The Script Society is our collaborative play reading group led by Roxanne Baker. Let's enjoy drama without the anxiety of memorizing lines or donning costumes! Choose a Reader ticket if you'd like an assigned role and the chance to participate in the reading, or a Listener ticket if you'd prefer to sit back, follow along, and enjoy the performance unfolding around you. No experience required; all you need is curiosity, enthusiasm, and a love of great storytelling. This month's selection is Tracy Letts's Superior Donuts—a funny, warm, and sharply observed play about an unlikely friendship and the possibility of starting over. Arthur Przybyszewski runs a rundown donut shop in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood, where both the storefront and its weary owner seem stuck in the past. Enter Franco Wicks, his ambitious young employee, bursting with ideas for improving the shop—and little patience for Arthur's resistance to change. As the two spar, joke, and gradually come to rely on one another, Letts explores generational divides, race, regret, community, and the complicated work of making peace with the past. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Superior Donuts is a big-hearted ensemble play about the people who can unexpectedly pull us back into the world. We will meet in person in the loft at our store at The Mark, 117 S. Pineapple Ave. The book club is $14.95, which is the cost of your copy of Superior Donuts to be picked up at Bookstore1 any time before our meeting. If you have any questions, please email [email protected]. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tracy Letts is the award-winning author of August: Osage County, Killer Joe, Bug and Man From Nebraska, which was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where August: Osage County premiered. ABOUT THE FACILITATOR: Roxanne Baker hails from the mecca of film, Rochester, NY, where she introduced films at the George Eastman House. Since she arrived in Florida, she has moderated film talk-backs at Burns Court and taught Film Appreciation at Sarasota Art Museum through Osher Life Long Learning.