IN THE GARDEN OF LIVE FLOWERS

IN THE GARDEN OF LIVE FLOWERS, A reading

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4 3:30 pm Rauh Studio Theater

by Attilio Favorini and Lynne Conner

directed by Kathleen Amshoff

featuring:
Greg Coughlin
Craig De Lorenzo
Paloma Guzman
Christopher Henry
Michael Herman
Eryn Joslyn
Laura Mixon
Michelle Mulitz
Melissa Tang
Jackson Tobiska

As part of Carnegie Mellon's 15th Annual International Festival "Globally
Green: Cultural Perspectives and Environmental Issues," CMU Drama
presents IN THE GARDEN OF LIVE FLOWERS, a play celebrating the life of
Rachel Carson.

During the research and writing of her world-changing book SILENT SPRING,
Rachel Carson is diagnosed with breast cancer. As she struggles to
complete the book, she simultaneously fights both her own advancing
cancer and various factions of American enterprise, including the
chemical industry, who launch a wholesale attack on her personal and
professional reputation. The journey of the play takes Rachel to a
crossroads cojoining her own life story with a fantastical landscape
enlivened by literary, film and cultural references that theatricalize
the revolutionary science of SILENT SPRING.