Washington and Lee University
Adult $10, Senior $9, Non-W&L Student $8, W&L Faculty & Staff $7, W&L Student $5
Box Office hours:
Monday - Friday, 9-11 a.m., 2-4 p.m.
and two hours before each ticketed performance
(540) 458-8000
Written Lucy Thurber and directed by Marquita Robinson '10
The Theater Department at W&L, with support from the Ruth E. Flournoy Theater Endowment, has created the Flournoy Playwright Festival to celebrate the pivotal role of the playwright in theater arts and to encourage playwriting in the United States and throughout the world. Playwrights are the heart and soul of the theater. In large measure, they shape the future of theater art. More importantly, playwrights challenge cultural assumptions, question cherished beliefs, resurrect forgotten values and revitalize the theater for each passing generation.
Lucy Thurber's Where We're Born focuses on life in a small, working-class rural town, where family relationships are maintained by a delicate balance between desire and dependency. When a local girl returns home from her elite college, her new identity and world view challenges all that she once knew, leaving her family and friends in a state of utter chaos.