Staged Reading: Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God

MONDAY, NOV 14 AT 6:30PM. Two couples — old friends — meet up for a dinner party. One couple is a university doctor and a former nurse, who live in comfort with their young daughter. The other is just back from Africa, where they spent the last six years as medical aid workers in an improvised clinic. As dinner progresses and the alcohol flows, so does the envy, guilt, and regret for lives lived and abandoned. A kind of post-colonial Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the play is a terse, moving, and acidly funny investigation of the West’s relationship with Africa. In partnership with the Goethe-Institut DC.