OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL DONUTS
by Jordan Beswick
Addressing a group of incarcerated teenage female offenders, Edna, the donut lady of Hayward, CA, shares her story of survival. How, through stubbornness, creativity, a capacity for love, and God’s peculiar care, she escaped her would-be destroyers and found salvation in, of all things, donuts. Her home and donut shop have provided abused and neglected youth safe haven for years. After listening to her speak, one of the young inmates was overheard saying, “I feel like I just spent an hour listening to the sun talk about darkness.”
- Cast Size: 1W
- Running Time: About an Hour
- Royalty Rate: $50 per performance
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About the Playwright
Jordan Beswick’s plays have been produced, directed by him and others, all around the world – from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in D.C. to the Riverside Studios in London to the Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York City to the Celebration Theatre in Hollywood to the Manufacture des Abbesses and Lucernaire in Paris…
He trained and performed as an actor, spent years working in talent management and casting, but found true happiness coaching actors, which he’s been doing internationally for almost 30 years.
Edna is a survivor of more than one kind of abuse, and her amazing story of resilience and finding her own way will survive in your memory for a very long time. This is simply one excellent and moving extended monologue/one-woman play. Read this one. You’ll be better for it.
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