The Virtual New Play Reading Festival - January 30

Virtual New Play Reading Festival

 Play Synopsis 

 

 

 

THE RITUAL

 

Despite the uncertainties of the pandemic-ridden world, two best friends try to maintain normalcy with a simple tradition: a weekly coffee over Zoom.

 

 

I ALWAYS KNEW YOU WERE AROUND

 

Two employees hide in a break room at a retail department store on the busiest day of the year, Black Friday. As sparks fly between them, something good seems just around the corner. But what is truly lurking on the other side of the wall for Rex and Zena? Could it be Hope? Their boss? Corona? Or could it be secrets of the past that threaten their present? "I always knew You were around" is a story of how the desperation for connection comes with an in exchangeable price tag... 
 
POOR BASTARDS
 
Poor Bastards is an exploration of struggle through the lense of a stunted creative. What do you do when the negative voice is out of hand? Where do you go when you feel lost? These are the questions David should be answering as he battles writer’s block, navigates his relationship with the projection of his struggle, and tries to evade the care of his friend Nassim.
 
THE WALK
The Walk is a one a one-act play dramatizing the life of World War II veteran Howard Unruh and events which led to his murder of thirteen people along River Road in Camden, New Jersey on September 6th, 1949, a tragedy widely recognized as America’s first mass shooting. Inspired by Dante’s Infernothe minimalist play is set outside the gates of Hell hours after Unruh’s death at Trenton State Psychiatric Hospital in 2009 and imagines the mass-shooter’s journey to the underworld while the ghost of Virgil conjures memories from his troubled past, leading Unruh to finally recall that fateful morning sixty years earlier.
 
THEY'LL NEGLECT TO TELL YOU
 
Grace is a burgeoning therapist. Merci dangles for freedom at the bottom of a bourbon glass. College sweethearts and newlyweds, they elope to Philadelphia for a fresh beginning. Stumbling into polarizing landscapes, they struggle in the margins of heart and home.
 
 

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