Sunday, April 26, 6:30 PM State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave. A Midsummer Night's Conversation and A Midwinter Night's Conversation are two short plays, each about a critical moment in the relationships of two different gay couples. Though different, each play intimately echoes the other. And, in each, one of the characters is an actor.
Unfortunately the workshop with Gary Garrison, Executive Director of the Dramatists Guild of America, which was scheduled for April 1st has been canceled. Check back here for news of our next workshop.
Sunday, March 29, 2009 @ 6:30 PM State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave. "Homegrown Tomatoes" by Micah McCoy Fundamentalist seminary student Evan Beech can find no other shelter in all of Austin, TX but a shared living cooperative run by a "nest of backyard-pooping hippies." When Evan's famous televangelist father is caught up in a sex scandal, Evan and his new roommates are forced to face head-on the complexities and absurdities at both extremes of America's 'culture war.'
March 26-28 and April 2-4, 2009 @ 8 PM Blue Theater, 916 Springdale Road Reservations: info-at-scriptworks.org/ 512-454-9727 Flashbacks, maternal admonitions, and all kinds of dances promenade through Time Steps, the 11th annual Out of Ink ten-minute play showcase. Eight plays were selected from submissions created during a 48-hour writing retreat, called the Weekend Fling. During the Fling, writers are given three "ingredients" and two days to write their hearts out and create a ten-minute play.
Connections A workshop with Arlene Hutton, writer of The Nibroc Trilogy Monday, February 23, 2009 7:00-9:30PM Daugherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Rd. ASW $20 / General $35 INFO/RESERVATIONS: 512-454-9727, christi-at-scriptworks.org Playwright Arlene Hutton, award-winning author of The Nibroc Trilogy, will take participants through a series of in-class writing exercises, provide new inroads to the wonders and revelations of the unconscious mind, and celebrate the thrill of creative writing.