NEW PLAY NEWS & UPCOMING EVENTS
---------------------------------∞---------------------------------------------
UPCOMING EVENTS
Events Coming Soon from The Comedy Academy, Inc.
you should mark your calendars now for our next presentations
* The Comedy Academy, Inc. Presents HeHEE! Or “What? It’s not Glee?” Imagine “Breakfast Club” meets “GLEE” (delete songs insert comedy sketches) Five performances Only! Sat, July 14 2:45 PM / Sun. July 15 8:15 PM Sat. July 21 – 4:30 PM / Wed. July 25 – 6:30 PM Fri. July 27 - 7:00 pm A high school’s habitual trouble makers are forced to form a comedy club because it’s believed that “laughter is the best medicine.” Will a creative outlet alter their bad behavior or inspire them to stir up more trouble? Yes. Studio Theatre - Milton Theatre 1501 14th Street NW - Washington, DC 20005 www.capfringe.org ------------------------------------- For future programs and updates on TCA activities, go to our website www.ourlaughingmatters.com |
Now Available for consideration ...
*
“… and a play to be named later”
a fantasy about life in the non-profit theater by Harry M. Bagdasian
-------------------------------------------∞--------------------------
CASTING REQUIREMENTS
three virtuosic actors play …
*
DOUGLAS playwright / actor
JIM company manager / actor
NANCY development director / actress
*
… and enjoy the chance to shine in multiple roles in the “play within the play”
-------------------------------------------∞--------------------------
Time: the present
Place: the near empty stage of a black box theatre
Set with: 1 table, 6 music stands, a wheel chair, 3 chairs & a trunk
T.R.T.: 90 minutes
-------------------------------------------∞--------------------------
THE PLAY
A
financially troubled non-profit theater produces only new plays. The
development director successfully raises thousands of dollars from five
foundations telling them that the opening play of the season is about
their “cause.” The playwright-in-residence must now write a play that
covers all five “causes” to save the development director (whom he
loves) from being locked up for fraud. The causes include workplace
accessibility for physically disabled people, hyphenated Americans not
disowning their ethnic heritage, Armenian women going into law school,
rights for illegal immigrants and assisted suicide.
The young playwright-in-residence creates the play needed. In doing so, he examines what it is about live theater that is so addictive, and why he stays in a profession despite the challenges. Inspired by my experiences during the twelve fervent years of Washington, DC’s New Playwrights’ Theater, the play explores not just the struggles of a small theater to stay afloat, but the passion of those who endure those often absurd struggles. What rekindled our passion for doing new plays on a shoestring year after year? As the playwright sums it up in his final speech:
“Some
say our desperation to do theater is a desperate cry, ‘Look at me, look
at me, look at me!’ Maybe for some, but for me it’s to overcome the
immense, overwhelming fear that each of us, as we live our days, are
really … alone. In the theater, when the laughs come at us, when you are
moved to silence … when there’s a collective gasp or sigh … for a
precious moment, in a world where so many are attached to gadgets and
detached from one another … we make contact. And I don’t know about you,
but those precious moments … those connections … just kick fear's ass.”
The
play and the three-interwoven stories that are the “play within the
play” are all about people making connections and the goodness that can
result.
---------------------------------∞---------------------------------------------
TO OBTAIN A COPY FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
PLEASE CONTACT ME or
Selma Luttinger at The Robert A. Freedman Dramatic Agency
150l Broadway, Suite 2310 - New York, NY 10036
(212) 840-5760 - sl@bromasite.com