A BLACK BIRD SINGING (TENTATIVE TITLE)
A new play by Mary Kelly
WHEN: Sunday, December 15, at 2:00 PM
WHERE: The Collective Art Tank’s new space at 529 Bangs Avenue, Asbury Park, NJ.
ADMISSION: $5 suggested donation.
For more information log onto www.blackboxnj.org.
A Blackbird Singing (Tentative Title) follows an American family over the course of ten years and exposes the struggles of growing up in the 21st century. Two twin brothers graduate high school. One joins the army, and one goes to business school, leaving their widowed mother behind, and beckoning the question: What is left of the American dream?
“I like playing with the idea of what a play is and is not,” says playwright Mary Kelly. “We get stuck in the rut of plays having to be a certain way. This play explores and, I hope, explodes those notions.”
A Black Bird Singing (Tentative Title) is part of the New Play Initiative at the Black Box, which presents readings of new works in progress on the third Sunday of each month. “Mary has a unique sense of creating plays that pulls together traditional playwriting with performance art and poetry to create visually stunning imagery and provocative stories that challenge our thinking of what plays are,” says Alexis Kozak, Literary Manager of the Black Box.
