Keely & Du
Play by Jane Martin
Directed by Kristina Melsheimer
Artistic Direction by Michael Siebrass
Cast
Keely - Lauren Omernik
Du - MaryAnn Maloof
Walter - Jim Seybert
Cole - Jed Authier
Narrator - Jill Turnbow
Kristina directed San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre’s staged reading of Keely & Du as part of the UBU’s Other Shoe Staged Reading Series.
Show Summary
Keely and Du is a 1993 play by Jane Martin that is just as relevant and thought-provoking today as it was 30 years ago. The story centers on Du, a right-to-life activist, and Keely, a pregnant rape victim whom Du is confining. Through the course of the play, the two women transcend their circumstances and the ideological issues that separate them to forge a relationship, but one without any easy answers. Who is accountable? What is the extent of individual freedom? What are a rape victim’s rights? What are a Christian’s realities of procreation? Their passionate stories exist on the extreme edge of everyday reality. This is a mind-probing issue play with a gripping human face.
