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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

LAST WEEK OF PLAY READINGS @ PTNJ

Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey is hosting the final week of their play reading FORUM:

The Final Week of FORUM

FORUM brings playwrights, actors and audience members together to enjoy the creative process of bringing a play to life. Staged readings of 17 innovative new plays by some of the country's best writers with intimate discussions between author and audience following each performance.

$10 per reading or get a FORUM Pass for $25 and attend all the readings.

Tuesday, December 14 - 7:00 PM
JACKASS FLATS
by John Simon & C.C. Lovehart
It's Las Vegas, 1951, and an unusual trio of women take a road trip to a sunrise picnic at the dawn of the Nuclear Age. Funny and relevant, JACKASS FLATS is a heart-warming story of survival in a time and place both mythical and real.

Wednesday, December 15 - 7:00 PM
ARTIST AS A MAN
by Joe Sutton
Author Joe Sutton explores the tangled relationship between an author and his agent. Not based on a true story, or is it?

Thursday, December 16 - 7:00 PM
THE LAW OF THE MONKEYS
by Ken Scarborough
Dani has a lot of love to give, and she gives it freely in this dark comedy by former SNL writer Ken Scarborough.

Friday, December 17 - 7:00 PM
NUMBER OF PEOPLE
by Emilie Beck
In this one person show, Len Cariou, portrays a Holocaust survivor whose encounter with a German family after his release from the camps comes to define the essence of his life.

Saturday, December 18 - 7:00 PM
MARLOWE
by James Glossman
An ensemble adaptation of Raymond Chandler's classic film noir tales of iconic private eye Philip Marlowe, amid the sun burnt, violent streets of 1940s Los Angeles.

Sunday, December 19 - 7:00 PM
THE EXCEPTIONALS
by Robert Clyman
In a new version of last year's reading, and prior to its production at Merrimack Theatre in Massachusetts, this play takes place in the Coordinator for Parent Liaison's office of a donor insemination research program for "exceptional" children and their parents.