A one woman play written by award winning playwright Peggy Driggs, Alice at Dawn chronicles the life of Dame Alice More, wife of Sir Thomas More, after his beheading by King Henry VIII in 1535.

Starring Rena Cherry Brown, winner of the prestigious Helen Hayes Award, and directed by Jim Chance, Alice at Dawn is an intriguing and compelling character study revealing the very essence of Sir Thomas More from the prospective of the widowed Dame Alice, and unveils the resolute character of the Dame herself. A moving documentary portrait, Alice at Dawn is not to be missed.

Two performances only, Friday and Saturday, March 23rd and 24th at 7:00 p.m. $20.00.

Ms. Cherry-Brown will offer a workshop on character development for the solo performer, open to adults and students 16 and up. Saturday, March 24th at 1:00 p.m. For information about the workshop only, call: 410-924-1350.

About the Actor: Rena Cherry-Brown

Rena Cherry-Brown has been performing in the Washington area for thirty years, including Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Olney Theatre, Washington Shakespeare Company, The Shakespeare Theatre, SCENA Theatre, Horizons Theatre, Keegan Theatre, and American Century Theatre, where her portrayal of Claire in "A Delicate Balance" earned her a Helen Hayes Award for Supporting Actress.

On the Eastern Shore, Rena appeared as Fonsia Dorsey in CAPA's production of "Gin Game" in summer of 2004. She appeared in "Love Letters", "The Odd Couple-Female Version", with CAPA, and in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", and "Royal Gambit" with Tred Avon Players. Rena has assisted coaching actors with Church Hill Players, writes children's stories, and works and lives in Easton.

About the Author: Margaret Barton Driggs

Peggy Driggs is a native of Savannah and a graduate of Agnes Scott College. She earned her M.A. in English at Washington College and studied translation at Georgetown University. She has lived Talbot County since 1977.

Ms. Driggs is the author of six plays. Her first, Sweet Chariot, which premiered as a one-act at the Oxford Community Center in 1992, won awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, a production grant from the Pilgrim Project of New York, and the 1994 Play Writing Award of the Festival of Southern Theatre. A one-woman play based on the life of Harriet Tubman, it was published by Palmetto Play Service in 1997, and has been performed in many parts of the United States. Bismarck Comes Back, a one-act play, won the Tred Avon Players' 1996 Lucille Fletcher One-Act Play Award, was showcased at the Harold Clurman Theatre in New York, and produced at Laurel Mill Playhouse in September, 2005. The Christening was produced at Colonial Players' Festival of Unconventional Theatre in 1999.

An actor with the Tred Avon Players, Ms. Driggs last played Gertie in Fuddy Meers. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the Playwrights Forum of Washington, and is a fellow of the Hambidge Center for the Arts in Georgia.