CRIB, a play by Professor of Theatre Arts Gino DiIorio, will be given a free staged reading at the Gloucester Stage Company on Sunday, July 17 at 7.30 p.m. The reading will be directed by Clark alumna Summer Williams ’01, M.A.Ed. ’02, who is a co-founder (with five other Clark graduates) of Boston’s prestigious Company One Theatre.

CRIB engages questions of race, scholarship, and mental illness. Tracy is an African-American professor in the midst of a tenure fight. Rajon is a star basketball player, negotiating the challenges of freshman year and his court prowess. When Rajon is accused of plagiarism and faced with expulsion, Coach Pari comes to his rescue, reminding Tracy that the school is run on athletic money, not on anything she hopes to achieve in the classroom. In turn, Tracy finds herself in the middle of an unwanted battle between academics and athletics.

Prof. DiIorio is the Andrea B. and Peter D. Klein Distinguished Professor and director of the Theatre Arts Program in the Visual and Performing Arts Department.

Click here to learn more about Gloucester Stage’s “Never Dark” series.