Miss Weekends

Miss Weekends is a young co-ed convict serving "short time" for a minor felony drug conviction. We join her in the dormitory-style women's county prison lockup where the inmates spend their days watching television, playing cards, painting toenails, fixing each other's hair, and fussing and fighting the way any group of women might - except they do it behind bars.

Monologues, aboriginal dreamtime prose poems, and short videos are woven through the play, offering further perspectives on the plays theme of lost and stolen freedoms.

On January 27, 2004 Thunderbird Productions produced a workshop reading of Miss Weekends at the Living Room on Ludlow Street in New York City.

Director: Stephanie Yankwitt

The work was first written in 1997 as a novella with the working title of MLCP (Mays Landing County Prison), and then developed as a full-length play in 2003 with the new title.