The Barrington Stage Company of Great Barrington, MA, will continue its 1999 summer season with the George C. Wolfe play, Spunk, playing through Aug. 8, at the Consolati Performing Arts Center. The play with music is based on three stories by the Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston. Rob Ruggiero directs a cast including Dyron Holmes, Keith Johnson, Lisa Renee Pitts, Godfrey L. Simmons Jr., Dathan Williams and Sheyvonne Wright. The first of Spunk's stories, "Sweat," tells of a young washer woman who is abused and betrayed by her estranged husband, and her ultimate triumph over him. The second story, "Story in Harlem Slang," is told in 1940's Harlemese. It is the tale of two street lotharios trying to out hustle each other. The third and final tale, "The Gilded Six Bits," is a bittersweet story of an adoring husband's betrayal by his loving but innocent wife.
For tickets or more information, call (413) 528-8888.
-- By Sean McGrath
