Echo Reads: What Use Are Flowers?

Each month Echo Theatre presents performance readings of provocative and entertaining scripts by some of the most interesting women playwrights of the past and present. A brief discussion with the director and cast follows each reading.

All performances begin at 7:30p.m. at the Bath House Cultural Center on White Rock Lake. Admission is free; donations are welcome.

What Use Are Flowers? by Lorraine Hansberry: Lorraine Hansberry won the praise of critics and audiences with her award-winning 1959 drama A Raisin in the Sun. Echo has unearthed her 1961 teleplay What Use Are Flowers? This fable about a hermit who discovers a group of wild children who are the only survivors of nuclear holocaust raises provocative questions about what it means to be civilized. Written just a few years before Hansberry's untimely death, this unusual play is one of only a handful produced by this talented writer.