‘I don’t even want the wind passing through the shutters. Not the thinnest breath from outside these walls. We are shutting up, do you hear? Do you see? Keeping out corruption
no matter whatsoever shape it takes.’
Following the death of their father and governed by their mother’s Primitive Baptist faith, the five Beckman daughters face a lengthy confinement within the walls of their remote Texan homestead. The youngest daughter’s passionate defiance of religious convention, however, soon unleashes the pent up jealousy and sexual frustration of the all female household.
“I know I’m not the Chosen now, I don’t feel that way about God. But still I know that feeling and it’s just as overwhelming and it’s calling me tonight!”
Set in the American South of the turbulent 1950s, Homestead is a thrilling new version of Lorca’s masterpiece of desire and betrayal. A fatal collision of frontier values and post-war dreams. Communal hymns and boys with cars. Church elders and Elvis Presley.
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Sydney –
Really excited to read the whole script! I just saw scenes from the play in a contest and it totally sparked my interest!