• ​A Play Reading celebrating the MLK National Holiday, followed by Audience Discussion. 

• Written by Dr. Dorothy E. King & Directed by Joy Hymon 

• Presented by PenOwl Productions and hosted by Second Church in collaboration with Carlisle Bridgebuilders.

 
In January 1924, in the middle of a snowstorm, in the middle of the night,  four people, two sets of strangers, came together.  Two were White; two were Black. Two were female; two were male.  Two were steeped in religion; two were centered in astronomy.  All were wishing for better relations between the races. What brought these strangers together? Was it a moon phase or a planetary shift or something deeper and farther away?

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Miss Lydia’s Church centers on the need to talk about the hard issues of racial relations in America, to face the fears that keep us silent, and to prepare a world for the next generations where all children are accepted and cherished.  That was, after all, the Dream that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King challenged us to envision and share.

 

Featured in the reading will be members of the PenOwl Productions Theatre Company Ensemble.  Jack Eilber and Monika Ross lead the cast.

 

Miss Lydia’s Church was written by Dr. Dorothy E. King, Founder of PenOwl Productions and retired Assistant Professor of Sociology at Penn State Harrisburg.  It was the 26th and final presentation in the annual MLK Campus Play Series at Penn State Harrisburg.  The reading is directed by Joy Hymon. 

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Coffee and cookies will be available following the play reading. This event is free and open to the public (good will donations will be accepted). 

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