Friendship Betrayed presented by WSC Avant Bard at Gunston Arts Center

Friendship Betrayed is a 17th-century comic gem by Spanish playwright María de Zayas y Sotomayor, a forerunner of modern feminism. This rarely produced masterpiece is about what happens to women’s friendships in the pursuit of men—and it sounds a lot like “Sex and the City”! Director Kari Ginsburg will set the play in the Roaring Twenties—a time when women had just won the vote and were testing the limits of their new-found sexual freedom. Avant Bard will present Friendship Betrayedconcurrently with the Women’s Voices Theatre Festival as a blast from the past, by a playwright who was way ahead of her time.