“If you’re lucky enough to be invited, go!”
Greg Lam
Photo by Sally Shen
All readings
In Person and on Zoom
2 to 5 PM Eastern
7 June: Katherine Burger “Down the Rushy Glen” *
When a thirteen-year old girl goes missing in the Yorkshire Dales, her father and the police question whether her stepmother is to blame or if something supernatural has abducted her.
28 June: Day of Shorts
· Geoff Leatham “Gun Show”*+
A lost conservative who gives up his guns faces an ethical crisis when he discovers his former militia group is about to raid the home of his former boss.
· Scott Ennis “Washed Up”*
An actor suffering from a bad review of his Hamlet performance finds a skull on a beach and engages in a discussion of theatrical philosophy, ironically, with the skull, who turns out to be the actual Yorick, jester of Elsinore.
12 July: Barbara Blatner “Cage”*+
A thirteen-year-old girl named George brings home a large wild snake and provokes her recently-divorced, emotionally distant mother Bobbi.
26 July: chandra thomas “…Of Champions”*
Facing down bankruptcy, the Murphys and their generations-old Black family circus reckon with their legacy in this play that interweaves history and the present with circus acts and performance styles from around the world.
30 August: Katie Myers “dog song”*+
A young couple is looking to build their off-grid home in the mountains, but between bad weather, a mysterious landlady, a wild pack of coyotes, and their own lack of technical skill, it's not going to be easy.
27 September: Arlene Hutton “Shake Rag Hollow” *+
After serving 18 years in prison for her uncle’s murder, Denise returns home to face her daughter, who blames her for the tragedy.
18 October: John Minigan “Sarai’s Knife”*+
Anyone can use a knife to cut things apart, but it takes an artist to put the pieces back together.
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*Indicates playwright(s) will be present at the reading, either in person or on Zoom
+Indicates the play is available to read on the New Play Exchange