Willa Cather and One of Ours: A Dramatic Reading

Students through 12th grade can attend this program for free! Please call 402-746-2653 to reserve free student tickets.

Joslyn Castle & Gardens is bringing a portion of their 15th Annual Art & Literary Festival to Red Cloud! Join us on Saturday, November 16th for a dramatic reading of Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel One of Ours, part of a weekend of programs celebrating Cather's work and its connections to Nebraska history. Adapted by Omaha playwright Scott Working, this dramatic reading of excerpts from Cather's acclaimed novel features seven Nebraska actors who will give voice to Claude Wheeler and the array of characters he encounters on his journey from farm boy to doughboy.  

Performers will be right at home on the Red Cloud Opera House stage, a creative space that Cather herself enjoyed as both an audience member and performer during her childhood in Red Cloud. After the dramatic reading, attendees are invited to stay for a talk-back conversation with the cast and crew of One of Ours.

Be sure to visit Joslyn Castle & Garden's website for more details about the full weekend of Art & Literary Festival programs.

Funding for this event was provided by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.