SAMANTHA INSIDE OUT

A staged reading of a new play

by Marisa Smith

directed by Theresa Rebeck

starring Jayne Atkinson

Samantha, a woman of a certain age, has had it - with her life, her marriage, modern life, everything. She's a high school English teacher, mother of grown twins and wife of Eliot, a cruel, pompous philanderer. After a humiliating and violent encounter with her husband, Samantha flees a stultifying Christmas party at the President of the College's house. She ends up in the host's teenage daughter's cluttered room on the third floor. Amid the chaos, Samantha reviews the wreckage of her life and reveals her truth and her secrets out loud. By doing so, Samantha charts a new course for herself. It's never too late to start again.