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Playwrights’ Revolution 2008-09
June 8 – 11, 2008
This project is supported by a grant from The James Irvine Foundation
Submission guidelines for 2009 Playwrights' Revolution.
The goal of the Playwrights’ Revolution is to celebrate new works and to encourage the creation of bold, powerful new plays for the American theatre. Each year, several new plays will be selected to participate in a series of roundtable and staged readings. At the conclusion of this reading series, one of these plays will be selected to receive its world premiere through a full production at Capital Stage as part of the theatre’s annual season.
Join us June 8 – 11, 2008 for this year’s four new play staged reading selections.
Meet the playwrights and be a part of Capital Stage history as one of the plays is selected to receive its world premiere in our 2008-09 season!
Tickets: $7/reading or $20 for the entire series
Box Office 916-995-5464
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Erratica: An Academic Farce
by Reina Hardy
Sunday, June 8, 7pm
Professor Samantha Stafford is trying to write a book on Shakespeare. But one of her students is madly in love with her, her publicist wants her to do something more commercial, and she is persistently haunted by an entity claiming to be the ghost of Christopher Marlow. Meanwhile, Jack Hooper, a librarian who just might be a match for Dr. Stafford, has lost a prized manuscript to a mysterious thief. It's all connected. But how? |
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Potential Literature
by Anthony D’Juan
Monday, June 9, 7pm
Ronnie McDaniels has just been hired as a journalist by the prestigious State Chronicle, based on her over-achiever’s resume and unstoppable drive. The great expectations she has set for herself, along with the expectations of her superiors, not only impose a threat to those around her, but cause Ronnie to fall victim to the rising pressure in a world full of gender and racial discrimination. When Ronnie comes across a story that borderlines truth and Urban myth, she is forced to make a moral choice that can either catapult her career or cause its downfall. |
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Megan’s Baby
by Mark Jackson
Tuesday, June 10, 7pm
Megan’s Baby is a contemporary comedy about grief and our desire to believe in something greater in life than ourselves. At an upscale private hospital frequented by the rich and famous, Megan tells a prominent doctor, Karl, that she is pregnant with God’s baby – which is true. When he hesitates to help her, Megan blackmails him with her knowledge that he is having an affair. The woman Karl is having an affair with is Karen, Megan’s high strung best friend, whose own marriage to a quiet fellow named Tom is unraveling. The lies thicken as events unfold, and all four characters stumble more and more as they search for something to make their small lives meaningful. |
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Safe House
by Geetha Reddy
Wednesday, June 11, 7pm
Safe House is a parable following a Silicon Valley family in the years before and after 9/11. The play is told from the fragmented point of view of the family's disabled son July. As the mother copes with her son's disability and an increasingly scary world, she makes choices that lead inexorably to tragedy. |
Submission guidelines for 2009 Playwrights' Revolution. |