Stageworks’ fourteenth annual PLAY BY PLAY festival of new one-acts navigates the paths we choose in life ... and what happens when those paths cross – and who better to travel this road than the wayfinding playwrights in this year’s festival of world premieres.
Some of our country’s best contemporary dramatists brave the risky and often comical routes we follow when coerced by our wants, needs and desires!
THIS YEAR'S PLAYS
Act I
In Doug Grissom's sexy and highly imaginative UNDRESS ME CLARENCE, a woman attempts to stimulate and reconnect with her disinterested husband through a hilariously detailed fantasy of seduction.
DEARLY BELOVED, by Donald Steele's, gives the traditional “walk down the wedding aisle” a heart felt and amusing twist when a father gives his daughter away to another woman.
James Farrell's play, BLACK & WHITE & BLUE, presents a searing portrait of grief in the aftermath of the murder of an aspiring and talented young singer in New York City.
In Lucile Lichtblau's charming and insightful play, ON THE BEACH, a loving, older couple trying to cope with illness and their inevitable separation are both entertained and oddly heartened by the antics of a pair of newly married health nuts who think they will live forever.
Act II
The white, upper-class couple in Sybil Patten's sharply drawn comedy, AMERICAN ORCHARDS, are in shock when the foreign child they agree to adopt, through a rather shady agency, turns out to be a 22 year old Afghani farmer – their fortress-like gated community will never be the same!
From telemarketing to pre-emptive wars to sex slaves, Lydia Stryk's THE LAST STANDING PROTESTER, is a forceful, beautifully written portrayal of one woman’s final stand against the threatening tidal wave of our society’s self-inflicted woes.
Samuel Brett Williams' funny and insightful play, BOBBY HEBERT, puts us in the eye of the storm when two average guys are stranded on a rooftop with a three day supply of Twinkies and an impending sense of their own mortality.
A holiday visit to the famous (or infamous) erotic temple carvings in India sets the stage for Tom Coash's KAMASUTRA, a humorous and touching look at relationships, sex and love in our twilight years.
$26.00
| Friday, December 7 - 8:00 pm | Buy This Show |
| Saturday, December 8 - 8:00 pm | Buy This Show |
| Sunday, December 9 - 2:00 pm | Buy This Show |
