The WordPlayers salute award-winning author and playwright Cormac McCarthy during the anniversary week of his death with a staged reading of THE SUNSET LIMITED on Monday, June 10, at 7:00 p.m. in The Square Room.
Cormac McCarthy received the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. He wrote many novels, but only two plays, one of which is THE SUNSET LIMITED. The WordPlayers will perform a staged reading of this challenging drama, free to the public, at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, June 10, just three days before the anniversary of McCarthy’s death at age 89 last summer. The play is a heavy, profound conversation piece that is not intended for young audiences.
On a subway platform in New York City, an ex-con from the South saves the life of an intellectual atheist who wasn’t looking for salvation. Now, the reformed murderer-turned-savior ventures to offer salvation of another kind, bringing the failed suicide victim back to his Harlem apartment for an articulate and moving debate about truth, fiction, and belief.
“The deity that presides over Mr. McCarthy’s world has not modeled itself on humanity; its voice most resembles the one that addresses Job out of the whirlwind.”
–The New York Times
“McCarthy’s writing seems to have no concern with offering light to a dark world, yet the preeminent darkness in his stories can certainly make light more beautiful for those who find it.”
-Ethan Norman, Artistic Director of The WordPlayers
