If you missed the stage reading of the delicious Southern-fried fiction of our own Mr. Alec Clayton at Olympia Timberland Library this past summer, you have another chance Tuesday, y'all. Clayton wrote a trilogy set in the steamy Mississippi Gulf Coast: The Backside of Nowhere is the story of movie star David Lawrence who comes back home to Freedom; Return to Freedom finds its Mississippian characters reeling from the aftermath of a deadly hurricane; Visual Liberties,follows Molly as she goes to college and gets involved with her art teacher, Darren Strong, and a fellow student, Francis Gossing. Oh, you have to read the books, or not. Unwilling to settle for a mere, mundane book signing, Clayton, once again, has cast local actors in readers' theater adaptations of his scenes that, combined, reads like a half-house, one-act play. He calls his cadre of thespians the Freedom Players.

READER THEATER: FREEDOM TRILOGY, 7 p.m., Tacoma Public Library Main Branch, 1102 Tacoma Ave. S., Tacoma, free admission, 253.292.2001