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This is the Peaceable Kingdom, or Good Luck God: This funny and shocking one-act play, published in 1981, was inspired by a real-life news item from New York City’s borough of Queens, reporting on a four-day nursing strike in the spring of 1978. In Williams’s hysterical – in every sense of the word – farce, the children of some very cranky seniors are forced to take care of their parents.  “The Peaceable Kingdom” of the title is a famous idyllic painting in which born enemies find peace and the lion lies down with the lamb. That doesn’t happen in the Queens nursing home, where the dying are not going gently or even politely. Even so, God appears. Or does God appear? The Festival’s production will be staged with puppets and live actors by the New Orleans Mudlark Public Theatre, directed by Pandora Gastelum.

Thursday, September 22 • 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Friday, September 23 • 12pm - 1pm
Friday, September 23 • 8pm - 9pm
Saturday, September 24 • 11am - 12pm
Sunday, September 25 • 5pm - 6pm

Ticket Cost: $35

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