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TREAD  -  A drama in Two Acts

Cast: 8 total 4 Female, 4 Male

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     Setting: Spring of 1927 in Oklahoma on a new section of paved highway (i.e. The future Route 66.) The action takes place in one night.  It is sunset. A young family is following the highway construction where they take time to dance on the new patch of pavement.

      Why are they dancing on the highway? It turns out the mother has the ashes of her abusive husband.  She is pouring the ashes under the highway so his grave will be tread upon forever.

 

      TREAD was performed as part of the DC Black Theater Festival at the Source Theater in Washington, D.C.

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