PLEASE NOTE: Performances of DS!PAC’s JUKED originally scheduled for February 6–23, 2025 and May 1-18, 2025 have been rescheduled again to November 6 – 23, 2025. Ticket holders will be contacted with more information.

Thursday – Saturday, November 6 – 22, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 23, 2025 at 3:00 p.m.

WORLD PREMIERE written by Mildred Inez Lewis

Juked is a retelling of Sophocles’ tragedy Electra. This version is set in 1950s Asheville and the “kingdom” is a chain of drink houses (private homes offering illegal alcohol) owned by the well-off, African-American Memnon family. Juked examines the relationship between Electra, her mother, and her sister, and asks what happens after tragedy. How do we recover? Juked is part of the Emerging Black Playwrights New Play Series and first debuted in its development phase, as a staged reading in November 2023.