Daysha Receives 2020 New Play Commission With PlayGround-LA

PlayGround-LA has announced the recipient of its 2020 PlayGround-LA play commission: Daysha Veronica. Over the next year, Daysha will expand her ten-minute play, Mother Earth Day, into a new full-length play. Originally written for the March 9, 2020 Monday Night PlayGround “Planet Earth Arts Night”, the short play was the March People’s Choice Award winner and was subsequently selected for PlayGround-LA’s season-ending Best of PlayGround-LA Gala, presented via Zoom live stream on April 20. Evoking the works of August Wilson and Eugene O’Neill, Daysha’s Mother Earth Day is a beautifully-rendered fablistic drama, simultaneously personal and universal as it examines the deep impacts of environmental change on families and their livelihoods. In the ten-minute script, an aging black farmer and his two sons struggle with how to best pass on their family’s legacy and heritage to the next generation while awaiting Mother Earth’s yearly delivery.

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