Kayenta New Play Lab: Mountain Meadows And The Little Schoolteacher, by Debora Threedy

This play is based on the life of Juanita Brooks, particularly the years from 1918 to 1951. The central mystery of her life is this: She was a seemingly ordinary Mormon housewife. Widowed as a young mother, married a second time to a man 17 years her senior, she had five children of her own and helped raise her husband’s four sons. She held positions of authority in her Church. She worked at a job for almost her entire life. How did such a woman come to publish the first accurate account of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, the full story of which had been actively suppressed by the LDS Church for nearly a hundred years? Where did she get the courage to tell the truth despite the opposition of her community and even family?

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Now in its third year, the Kayenta New Play Lab is where bold new voices in American theater come to life. Stay after each reading for an engaging dialogue with the artists, where your feedback helps shape the evolution of each piece.

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You may also like the following events from Center for the Arts at Kayenta:

• Next Friday, 15th August, 07:30 pm, Kayenta New Play Lab: Spoiled, by Ken Narasaki in Ivins
• This month, 29th August, 07:30 pm, Kayenta New Play Lab: The Secret History of the Mahulley Monster (Or The Cryptid Play) in Ivins
• Next month, 7th September, 05:00 pm, Taste of the Town at Kayenta! in Ivins

Also check out other Arts events in Ivins, Theatre events in Ivins.