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Readings for Saturday, March 2, 2019
11:00am
Dinner at Donnie's
by B. A. Newman
directed by Bill Bisbee
When your world falls apart before your eyes what would you do?
Beckie Connelly is facing the toughest decision of her life, but life as she knows will change before her very eyes.
1:00pm
Readings for Saturday, March 16, 2019
11:00am
1:00pm
The Cayuga Canal Girls
by Laura King
directed by Andre Title
Only dredging the canal can make the waters more navigable.
SYNOPSIS
Five female childhood friends reunite in their historic hometown of Seneca Falls, New York, to lay one of their own to rest. As they struggle to come to grips with the surprising death, they reopen old wounds, face harsh realities, and confront the compromises they have made in their lives. But as the day wears on, the women learn that even though into each life some rain must fall, the rain offers a cleansing promise of new possibilities.
BIOLaura King is an award-winning playwright and instructor of theatre. She holds an MFA in playwrighting from Hollins University and is a member of the Dramatists Guild (Atlanta region ambassador), Working Title Playwrights, and the Southeastern Theatre Conference (Publications Committee). Her full-length plays Independence Day at Happy Meadows and The Harmony Baptist Church Ladies Auxiliary Christmas Jubilee are available for licensing through Stage Rights. Her plays for young actors are available through YouthPLAYS. Her play Fallout was developed through the Baltimore Playwrights Festival in 2017 and was fully produced at Vagabond Players.
11:00am
Dinner at Donnie's
by B. A. Newman
directed by Bill Bisbee
When your world falls apart before your eyes what would you do?
Beckie Connelly is facing the toughest decision of her life, but life as she knows will change before her very eyes.
1:00pm
Readings for Saturday, March 16, 2019
11:00am
1:00pm
The Cayuga Canal Girls
by Laura King
directed by Andre Title
Only dredging the canal can make the waters more navigable.
SYNOPSIS
Five female childhood friends reunite in their historic hometown of Seneca Falls, New York, to lay one of their own to rest. As they struggle to come to grips with the surprising death, they reopen old wounds, face harsh realities, and confront the compromises they have made in their lives. But as the day wears on, the women learn that even though into each life some rain must fall, the rain offers a cleansing promise of new possibilities.
BIOLaura King is an award-winning playwright and instructor of theatre. She holds an MFA in playwrighting from Hollins University and is a member of the Dramatists Guild (Atlanta region ambassador), Working Title Playwrights, and the Southeastern Theatre Conference (Publications Committee). Her full-length plays Independence Day at Happy Meadows and The Harmony Baptist Church Ladies Auxiliary Christmas Jubilee are available for licensing through Stage Rights. Her plays for young actors are available through YouthPLAYS. Her play Fallout was developed through the Baltimore Playwrights Festival in 2017 and was fully produced at Vagabond Players.