BAD SWEETHEART

A gripping courtroom drama about sexuality and privilege set in 1950s England. Five men gather at a secluded beach house one summer weekend in 1952; two years later, they reunite – not as friends and lovers, but as witnesses and defendants in a sensational trial. Join us for the first-ever reading of BAD SWEETHEART, a new play by Joseph Rodota.

This is Rodota’s fourth collaboration with B Street Theatre, following his play CHESSMAN, about the 1960 execution of Death Row prisoner Caryl Chessman; THE JEANE DIXON EFFECT, about the celebrity clairvoyant who predicted the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; and HILLSIDE: LIVE, a conversation with KCRA anchor Edie Lambert about the Hillside Strangler murders that shocked 1970s Los Angeles.