Our One Night Stands play readings have proven a popular way to give you a wider view of each season’s featured playwright’s range of work. With limited rehearsal, scripts in hand, and no sets or special lighting, actors bring each play to life through the word alone in evenings of exciting energy shared between the stage and the audience.
This season, these intimate, informal readings not only help us to bring you all fourteen playwrights featured in our 2011-12 retrospective season, but have been expanded to “Two Night Flings” to meet audience demand – now Sunday and Monday at 7:30pm.
Admission is available only at the door the day of the show, is not included in any subscription package, and is a suggested donation of $10. Arrive early for best seats!
Our 2011-12 “Two Night Fling” lineup includes:
Take Me to the River by Constance Congdon
Oct. 9-10, 2011
Directed by Christy Drogosch
Featuring Tobias Andersen, Mario Calcagno, Laura Faye Smith, Leif Norby, Verinika Nunez, Josie Seid, David Sikking, Paul Susi, Jonah Weston
Take Me to the River explores the devastating impact on a small farming community in Colorado when water rights are lost to the government. Congdon makes a global issue both intimate and personal, as two families struggle to survive the ordeal with humor, anger, and wisdom.
The American Clock by Arthur Miller
Playwright sponsor: (In Honor of) Robert Unger
Dec. 4-5, 2011
Directed by Eve Roberts
Included among the cast: Duffy Epstein, Todd Hermanson, Andy Lee-Hillstrom, Jacklyn Maddux, Ted Roisum, Louisa Sermol
Inspired in part by Studs Terkel’s oral history Hard Times, The American Clock presents a series of vignettes examining Depression-era 1930′s America. Featuring a cast of 20 playing a rich array of multiple roles, Miller’s dramatic collage of intimately personal stories and well-known American songs brings the experience of the Depression to life – with an all-too familiar echo of today’s economic climate.
Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music by Lee Blessing
Playwright Sponsor: Mary Simeone
Jan. 22-23, 2012
Directed by JoAnn Johnson
Featuring Orion Bradshaw, Sarah Farrell, Paul Glazier, Stephan Henry, Val Landrum
In this sharply comic, romantic and affecting play, Blessing explores the heartaches and curious – and often unfortunate – eccentricities of Eve and her niece Catherine, two women who live over a country music bar in Houston, Texas.
Blind Date and The Actor by Horton Foote
Mar. 18-19. 2012
Directed by Pat Patton
Featuring Nathan Crosby, Todd Hermanson, Andy Lee-Hillstrom, Kelley Marchant, Brianna Norris, Karen Trumbo
Horton Foote explores ambition, love and family in these two hilarious but touching. funny and moving short comedies. How do we meet the expectations of the ones we love and stay true to ourselves. “Foote writes with intelligence, sensitivity, humor, and compassion.” – New York Magazine
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale by Tennessee Williams
April 15-16, 2012
Directed by Christine Morris
Featuring David Bodin, Ty Boice, Nathan Dunkin, Christy Drogosch, Zoe Grobart, Christine Morris, Eric Newsome, Bobby Ryan, Luisa Sermol, Kathleen Worley
Williams’ revised version of Summer and Smoke explores the tremulous sexual awakening of the gentile, high-strung Southern spinster, Alma. Set in Mississippi of the early 1900′s, Nightingale is a poignant story of desire, passion, love and the search for fulfillment of the soul.
The Goddess Speaks Readings from Shiksa Goddess by Wendy Wasserstein
Playwright Sponsor: Sally Unger
Jun. 3-4, 2012