by Thomas Gibbons
Saturday, February 7th, 7pm.
Directed by Jeff Adler
Dramaturgy, Alice Benston
Isolated from the ostentatious wealth and prosperity of the Gilded Age, for thirty years the Silverhill Community has thrived as a religious utopia based on its practice of “Bible communism” and a form of free love called “complex marriage.” But conflict between the founder and another member over a young woman leads to a radical proposal: Silverhill should abandon its communistic identity and embrace capitalism as a corporation, distributing its wealth to the members in the form of stocks. Now the members must vote either to preserve their way of life or transform it irrevocably. Silverhill explores the irony of children yearning for what their parents have renounced and the inescapable collisions of idealism, desire, and jealousy.
This staged reading is an Emory Founder’s Week event.