GRISWOLD
by Angela J. Davis (First Full Production)
August 8 – August 18, 2024.
Directed by m burke walker
Sets and Lights by John Sowle
It’s 1961 and birth control is illegal in Connecticut (and several other states). On the eve
of the sexual revolution, a bold and iconoclastic 65-year-old woman challenges the law by engineering her own arrest. This sets in motion an extraordinary series of events leading to the first U.S. Supreme Court decision to recognize a right of sexual privacy, paving the way for other guarantees of liberty including the right of same-sex couples to marry. GRISWOLD was the winner of the A is For Playwriting Award and the Playhouse Creatures Emerging Playwrights Celebration Award. This is an important new work for what promises to be a contentious election year in its first full production.