Award-winning Roanoke Playwright opening new show ‘The Bread Baking Play’ in Star City
ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) — Award-winning Roanoke playwriter Meredith Dayna Cope-Levy is opening her new play, ‘The Bread Baking Play,’ at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church over the weekend starting Friday, May 17.
The play is a modern retelling of the story of Martha and Mary from the Bible, centering around two sisters who come together to prepare the Eucharist bread for their brother’s funeral, who was holding their relationship together. Throughout the play, tensions rise, and past family bumps resurface as they navigate the world without their lost brother. During the play, the two actresses bake fresh bread on stage as they strive for reconciliation and understanding.
“It’s a really fascinating exercise in naturalism,” says director Lauren Brooke Ellis. “All of the action, all of the tension, the propelling of the story; everything that is normally created in theatre by making decisions based on script analysis and aesthetics is dictated totally by the recipe.”
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Cope-Levy is a playwright based in Roanoke and writes plays based on her lived experiences and emotional truths. Her plays ‘The Hills’ and this current one were named finalists for the 2020 and 2023 seasons from the National Playwrights Conference at Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.
The Bread Breaking Play opens on Friday, May 17 at 7:30 p.m. Other performances throughout the weekend will take place on Saturday, May 18 at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, May 19 at 4 p.m.
Tickets are pay-what-you-can at the door, but tickets can be reserved online at BreadBakingPlay.BrownPaperTickets.com.
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