My One Good Nerve is a solo play based on the book by the same name, an exuberant collection of writings in the down-home tradition by that incomparable icon of the human spirit, Ruby Dee.

"Ruby Dee is one of those rare performers who could read the telephone book and make it interesting," says the Winston-Salem Journal. The force of Ruby Dee’s personality resonates in this one-woman tour de force, an enactment of her best-selling collection of poetry and anecdotes.