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Come and experience a little Southern (dis)Comfort on Thursday, September 9, at 7 p.m., at the Carol Belk Theater located at UNC Asheville.Southern (dis)Comfort is a new comedy written by Elisabeth Gray about life and death in the American South, with stops along with way ranging from Cracker Barrels and nursing homes, to beauty pageants and church gymnasiums. All the characters you meet in the show (and the writer who created them) were born and raised in the American South; they are all complex individuals with rich interior lives, vibrant thoughts and ready sensitivities. Elisabeth Gray, an Asheville High graduate, premiered her first one-woman show Wish I Had a Sylvia Plath in Asheville in 2007, which went on to win the Fringe First Award for 'Innovative and Outstanding New Writing' and also a UK Stage Awards nomination for 'Best Performance in a Solo Show.' She is recipient of the UK Juliet Bernard Memorial Prize for 'Most Promising Young Actress', and a graduate of Oxford University. Tickets are on sale August 24 through September 7. The cost is $40 per person. To purchase tickets, please call 828-251-6525 or email Amy Johnson at acjohns2@unca.edu. Payment can be made with a check or credit card. A dessert reception will follow the performance. For more information, visit www.unca.edu/events/southern-discomfort. Proceeds of this performance will benefit the UNC Asheville scholarship program and New Umbrella, Inc, a multidisciplinary arts organization based in Asheville. (Images provided by UNCA.)
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