A Tea With Zora and Marjorie, by Barbara Speisman

 “They saw themselves as renegades and as daring, and they loved adventure,” said playwright Barbara Speisman.  “They were two women who were from very different worlds.”  They both lived in St. Augustine.  And despite the prevailing climate of segregation, they became friends!

Speisman’s play imagines the first meeting of these two headstrong women in 1942, both at the height of their success, at Rawlings’ upstairs apartment at the segregated Castle Warden hotel in St. Augustine, and their ensuing conversation over “tea” – a colloquialism for whiskey! 

Directed by Jean Rahner.