The Coffin Maker - Post Play Talk

The Coffin Maker - Post Play Talk

Lifelong Learning | Available (Membership Required)

9000 Babcock Blvd Pittsburgh, PA 15237 United States

PSC 101

6/10/2024 (one day)

11:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT on Mon

Join Sr. Rita Yeasted as she discusses The Coffin Maker by Mark Clayton Southers.

In this new installment of his century-spanning chronicle of the Black experience inspired by his mentor August Wilson, Pittsburgh theater legend Mark Clayton Southers turns back the clock to 1849 Oklahoma. There, free man Lawrence Ebbits and his wife Eula live peacefully preparing bodies for burial with care and respect, until their world is turned upside down by a bounty hunter who gets more than he bargained for and a fugitive determined to forge his own future. This Western-Comedy-Revenge play is a genre-defying world premiere spiked with heart-stopping revelations. 

Yeasted, Sr. Rita

Sister Rita Yeasted,  SFCC, Ph.D., a graduate of La Roche, holds two degrees from Duquesne University, all in English Literature. Her official title is The Dorothy Saladiak Distinguished Professor of English Emerita.  She has taught in the Pittsburgh area from 1962 at levels from elementary through university, and has been at La Roche for 42 years, serving as English Department chairperson for three decades. Recently retired, she now teaches as an adjunct professor. A lifelong lover of theater, she holds special affection for August Wilson, and looks forward to sharing his life and works.