A Reading of LOUDER

It’s the fall of 1999 - the eve of Y2K - and the start of another school year at Ursuline Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school in Cleveland, Ohio. In the convent near campus, the sisters await the return of their students. But as fissures in the student body and faculty begin to appear - and the 2000th year since Christ’s birth approaches - five nuns find their ordinary lives suddenly enveloped by a strange uncertainty. For those with eyes open, signs and portents are everywhere. But what they portend, no one knows. Louder is a play about looking deeply, and the enormity within the seemingly quietest of lives.