The Main Stage

Waiting to be Invited*
Award Winning Drama/Comedy by S.M.Shephard-Massat
Directed by Cody Jones

"Four strong women prove that if you don't do it - it never gets done."

". . . . . A poignant play… underscores the goodness of ordinary people at their best." - Christian Science Monitor.

"Considered strictly as theater, it would be well worth seeing in the context of Black History Month, this show is essential viewing." -KDHX Theatre Review.

In tribute to Black History Month, Serenity Players, Inc. presents Waiting to be Invited, written by S.M. Shephard-Massat and directed by DC's own Cody Jones.

Waiting to be Invited is based on a true situation from the life of the playwrights' grandmother during the summer of 1964 in Atlanta, GA. Four middle-aged black women, co-workers from a local doll factory, travel by city bus to a "whites only" eating establishment inside a downtown Atlanta department store. Their purpose is to "test" their newly acquired civil rights handed down by the Supreme Court ruling outlawing racial segregation in eating establishments.

This funny, touching play received the Kennedy Center Roger L. Stevens Award for New Playwrights and the Adrienne Kennedy Award for Most Promising Young Dramatist. "…Today, I ask you to revisit your own journey of civil injustice and travel with the cast of Waiting to be Invited as they fight the demons that have tried to break their spirit. Feel their pain, hear their laughter, touch their tears but most of all, hold their hands as they walk the road of social injustice but stand tall in their fight for a peoples justice…." Cody Jones, Artistic Director