Hawthornucopia Opening Reception and Reading of Salem January 13, 2008

To kick off 'Hawthornucopia,' Metropolitan Playhouse presents a reading, followed by a celebratory reception for the third annual festival of new works inspirecd by the life and literature anAmerican author. First presented at the theater in 2001, Alex Roe's 'Salem' follows Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story of witchcraft and worry, "Young Goodman Brown." When a virtuous young man spurns the Devil and returns to his the town he was raised in, how exactly can he tell who is naughty and who is nice?