2010-2011 Season
"When was the last time you saw something NEW?"
announcing our 2010-2011 season
FRONT ROW SEAT
by Kathy Anderson
World Premiere! - November 20 - December 12, 2010
Walnut Street Theatre Studio Five
It is 1963 and the Flannery family is on a trip, a rare outing from their little hometown. They are not experienced travelers and experience multiple mishaps and calamities. Frannie wrestles with a killer girdle. Inez crashes into a wayward cow. Billy fends off a knife-wielding Christian. The strangers they meet are getting stranger and stranger. But they are increasingly determined to realize their once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the President and First Lady in person. And they want to be right up front.
FOURTH ANNUAL PLAYSHOP FESTIVAL
Four Plays in Process
April 29 - May 22, 2011
Walnut Street Theatre Studio Five
Four new high quality scripts that reflect diverse, contemporary human stories will run in repertory as part of this new play festival. During this unique and intensive program, playwrights, directors, designers, dramaturgs, and actors work collaboratively to develop these plays utilizing feedback from the artists in rehearsals and performances before live audiences. YOUR opinions matter. The playwrights will be writing and re-writing the scripts during the entire process, so the plays will reshape themselves over the course of the festival:
Loved Ones
by Robin Rodriguez
Crystal needs to get a life. She's seen plenty of lives on TV, in the movies, and on all those cool social networking sites--and now she'd like one of her own. Fortunately, Crystal's found an agency that provides instant family and friends--for a price. But when her money starts to run out, and the line between fact and fiction becomes blurry, Crystal has to decide which is more costly: to continue with her rented life, or to risk coming up with a "real" one of her own.
Reindeer, Magnetosphere
by David Stratton White
Rudy Reidner and Conner Flowers are never invited to join in any reindeer games at Thomas Paine High. So they find comfort in Mr. Hammel's Ethical Philosophy class. When Joseph Willoughby, basektball star, writes "Conner Flowers is a fag" on Mr. Hammel's board, the teacher wants him suspended. Yeah, that doesn't happen. Instead, Rudy and Conner's world gets flipped upside down when Rudy decides to take matters into his own hands. Consequences are a bitch.
Seven
by Kelsey Amentt
Jack and Jill's marriage has been anything but a fairy tale. After a heated argument, Jack walks out on his family and is hit by a truck. The accident breaks more than just Jack's crown--it puts him in a coma. The spirit of Jack's deceased father-in-law implores Jack to go back and fix his marriage. Waking after seven years, Jack has only seven days to win his wife back and get Jill to tumble after him again.
The Ugly Past
by Kevin Grauke
Warren is a successful businessman in New York with a much-younger girlfriend. Doyle, his long-lost brother, is a playwright with a new play about two young brothers growing up in Texas, one of whom murders their baby sister. Is the play based on fact? Or is it fiction? What about their father? Did he die in an accident? Or did he commit suicide? Myth and memory collide with resentment and revenge in a true case of art imitates life. Or does it?
...Plus some additional surprises!
