The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center of Waterbury, CT, will present a reading of Cusi Cram's new play, Lucy and the Conquest July 10-11, as part of the O’Neill Playwrights Conference. Liz Diamond will direct.

Lucy and the Conquest takes place in Bolivia, where heroine Lucy Santiago heads after she if fired from a show call "Beach Detectives." She'd like to forget about everything, but is constantly reminded about her race's history by a hundred-year-old grandmother and a "latter-day conquistador." The reading is at 8 PM.

The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, founded in 1964 and based in Waterford CT, is home to programs that explore the variety of theatrical disciplines and forms, including: the Playwrights Conference, Music Theater Conference, Critics Institute, Puppetry Conference and Cabaret Symposium, as well as the National Theater Institute and the Monte Cristo Cottage, the childhood home of O’Neill.

Public readings will be held Tuesday through Sunday until July 22. Ticket prices range from $8 to $12. To reserve tickets or receive a summer schedule, call the O’Neill Center box office at (860) 443-1238.

—By Robert Simonson