Glenville Lovell

Simone's Place Glenville Lovell

The play is a story of love, acceptance and the need for connection and belonging. Though it focuses on issues of gender identity, the question of class is ever present. The central character is the transgender owner of the club/bar Simone?s Place where she performs Nina Simone jazz standards as Lady Simone. Simone has become advisor/healer to many of the broken souls who drink and hang around the bar; at the same time she is most in need of love and healing herself. The central figure?s paradox binds and balances the play as each character struggles with the dilemma of trying to be free in an society where wearing masks is the key to survival.