Fling Salon Sunday, October 26th @5:30p The State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave. The annual Weekend Fling is a playwriting retreat at which members have 48 hours to write a 10 minute play using 3 arbitrary ingredients. This year's ingredients are being contributed by Michael John Garces, Artistic Director of Cornerstone Theatre in Los Angeles, writer/performer Sharon Bridgforth, and local designer and producer, Natalie George.
Moses of the Bulrushes (a divine comedy) by Steve Warren Sunday, September 28th @ 6:30pm The State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave. The orphan Moses, abandoned as a baby in a basket on the river by his mother, possesses divine powers but doesn't know it yet even at age 17, because he has been raised by the stuttering, backwoods, river-washing former preacher Monroe Gifford and his two ugly sons who believe Moses is cursed for being born out of wedlock. Abused by his adopted family, Moses soon escapes with the help of wheelchair-ridden Granny Hannah and sets out on his Path to Glory, but when the ugly boys discover Moses has the deed to Granny's farm that Monroe desires, they pursue Moses with a vengeance.
Tear Down by John Lively Sunday, June 29th @6:30pm State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave. Tear Down is a meditation on marriage documenting an elderly couple's conflict between structure and routine, and progress. Harold and Beverly struggle to hold onto their life together as economics force them out of their home of 47 years.
Gillian's (W)hole by Tracie Gardner Sunday, May 18th @6:30pm State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave. Gillian's (W)hole During a stay in a hospital emergency room after accidentally almost killing herself, beleaguered single mother Gillian Banks is startled to learn that her hope has fallen out of her- quite literally, in the form of a woman named Ara. Despite doubts about her own sanity, Gillian grudgingly accepts Ara's strange presence, and the two are dropped back into Gillian's anguish-laden life. Guilt, despair, and outrage over gender stereotypes and an inadequate justice system flood in on a tide of embittered humor as Ara slides ever closer to extinction in the grip of Gillian's vicious nightmares. Gillian's only hope for her "hope" breathes in the dead, their influence tethered along a curious lifeline strung from the poetry of Emily Dickinson.
3 Short Works by ASW Members
Sunday, April 27th @ 6:30pm
State Theatre, 719 Congress. Ave.
Ballet for Dog and Red-Haired Girl by Hank Schwemmer
What would YOU do with a broken clock, a three-legged dog, and 2000 jigsaw puzzles? Can you tell nirvana from a fire escape? It’s 4:33 AM, the […]