curated and directed by Stephanie Shine

sponsored by Greta McCormick Coger, Ph.D.

Sunday, February 23, 2020
on the Owen and Margaret Wellford Tabor Stage

2:30 pm cocktails
3:00 pm reading
4:00 pm discussion

Join us for cocktails of the ladies’ preference, light snacks, an engaging reading, and a fun post-read discussion!

Margaret Mitchell of Georgia wrote Gone with the Wind within one year of Alabama’s Zora Neale Hurston penning Their Eyes Were Watching God (1936-1937). While Hurston’s literary output far exceed that of Mitchell, both writers are esteemed for their original narrative, searing humor, reflection of regional vernacular. Their works remain central to our cultural understanding of seminal periods in American life: the Civil War south for Mitchell and the Harlem Renaissance for Hurston.

Please join director Stephanie Shine and actors Ann Perry Wallace, Merit Koch, Cara McHugh Geissler, and Symone Williams as they read from the writings of Margaret Mitchell and Zora Neale Hurston, including Gone with the Wind, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston’s “How It Feels to be Colored Me,” and their correspondence and interviews.