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The Outrageous New Play Festival Series

Summer Theatre Fun Coming June 30^th …

Monsoon season is coming and we have some terrific fun in the works.

Picture this: Three Tucson playwrights presenting their unpublished plays for public viewing after several weeks of working with actors and directors to give their words on the page a place of the stage.

Beginning on June 30 and running until July 18, plan to spend time engaging with playwrights, directors and actors as they workshop three new stories on our stage. From Wednesday to Sunday evenings each week, with matinees on Saturdays and Sundays, playwrights will work with minimal sets, lighting, sound effects, props, and costumes to create an intimate environment where their words are the focus and the audience is the judge.

You’ll have the opportunity to see one play or all three and could even achieve that in a single weekend. Tickets will go on sale on June 1^st with reduced prices for advanced purchases until June 25^th . And, just for fun, you can support your favorite plays in our “Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is,” fun-draiser to help us develop a seed money for next year’s Play on the Stage program.

Who knows? We might even discover a play this summer to fully mount at the end of our 2010-2011 subscription season.  Anything can happen!

Play #1, The First Third by John Vornholt, directed by Dave Sewell:

On December 1, 1969, at the height of the Vietnam War, the Selective Service held a nationwide draft lottery on prime-time TV in an attempt to make the draft more fair. Almost all deferments were canceled, and every able-bodied man between the ages of 19 and 26 faced a certainty of being drafted to go Vietnam if his birthday fell in the First Third of the capsules drawn. On this fateful night, we join five college seniors as their lives and futures are determined by a TV game show, hosted by retiring General William B. Hershey.

Play #2, The Language of Flowers by Gavin Kayner, directed by Steve Anderson

Think of this: It's the dead of night. Two sisters, one channeling Emily Dickinson - the second trapped in a delusion that her doll is a living baby - drag a body across the floor and stuff it into the refrigerator. They swear each other to secrecy. At dawn an escaped convict breaks into their home, into their private lives and all hell breaks loose. Of course, it's a love story. And a mystery. Waiting to be plucked.

Play #3, A Work of Art by Jonathan Northover, directed by TBA

London, England, in the world of high art as inhabited by Danny, Helen and Gornstoun and Helen’s Aunt Brailey, an eccentric gallery owner with a taste for good art.  That is, as long as everyone realizes that it’s good. Led by bouts of arson, the exploitation of underage Chinese artists and a level of violence that can only derive from love, the plot centers around the disappearance of a unique original painting by the famous 19^th century artist, Anton Von Holk Koopercheck. This is not just a play.  It is an essential study of how far we might go in pursuit of a new idea, especially if it’s been done before.  A study of our fascinating with originality, even if it doesn’t exist.  And a study of not just what’s on the surface of art, but what’s supposed to be on the surface.

Advance Tickets (June 1^st-June 25^th ): One performance - $12 each, package of three plays - $30

At the Door and after June 25^th : $15 each

Student/Military Rush (ID required): $10 Cash at the door, 15 minutes before curtain, space available

Please purchase your tickets by clicking here.

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