Play-by-Play: WILL IT GO ROUND by Matthew Ivan Bennett

Pioneer Theatre Company presents its 9th annual new play reading festival: Play-by-Play. This year’s lineup features three new works from Catherine Trieschmann, Kaaron Briscoe, and Matthew Ivan Bennett. All presented in at the Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre and featuring professional theatre artists from around the nation—as well as some from right here in Utah.

Will It Go Round
by Matthew Ivan Bennett
Directed by Alexandra Harbold

Will It Go Round is a cycle of short stories in civil rights from 1964 to 2020, each a snapshot of people’s lives in Utah. A mixed race couple is sent to the principal’s office. LGBT students fight for an after-school club. Old estranged classmates reunite after the murder of George Floyd and see how far apart—but still close—they are. A tapestry of scenes showing how far we’ve come, how far we haven’t, and why politics are always personal.