Staged Readings are at 7:00 pm
on the dates shown below.

Presented at The Square Room
4 Market Square, Knoxville

Spring 2024 Schedule

• April 15 – THE LEAGUE OF YOUTH, by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
• May 13 – DAISY, by Sean Devine
• June 10 – THE SUNSET LIMITED, by Cormac McCarthy

DAISY
by Sean Devine
Monday, May 13 @ 7:00 pm
at the Square Room, 4 Market Square
FREE ADMISSION
(Donations appreciated)

Doors open at 6:30 PM.

THE STORY: It’s the fall of 1964. Bloody turmoil over civil rights is spilling onto the streets. A fearful ideology is growing from the conservative right. The threat of nuclear war is palpable. And a little skirmish in the far-off nation of Vietnam just won’t go away. With a presidential election looming, a group of “ad-men” working for Lyndon Johnson unleash the most devastating political commercial ever conceived, the “Daisy ad.”

Based on true events, DAISY explores the moment in television history that launched the age of negative advertising, and forever changed how we elect our leaders. War was the objective. Peace was the bait. Everyone got duped.

Presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing Dramatists Play Service Collection (www.dramatists.com)

Directed by Steve Sherman

Cast

• Caroline King … LOUISE
• Gregory Crane … SID
• Billy Kyle Roach … AARON
• Drew Drake … CLIFFORD
• Tony Cedeño … TONY
• Peter Aylward … BERNBACH

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