| Playwrights Theatre’s roundtable reading series FORUM will present SOUNDINGS WHERE: Fairleigh Dickinson University, Dreyfuss Theatre, 285 Madison Avenue, Madison Click here for directions Click here for a printable map of the campus (the Dreyfuss Theatre is located in Building 9) |
FORUM brings playwrights, actors and audience members together to enjoy the creative process of bringing a play to life. Staged readings of 12 innovative new plays by some of the country’s best writers with intimate discussions between author and audience following each performance.
Week Two of FORUM Readings
| Monday, December 16 Who is the Tea Party? In this documentary-style play, a playwright travels around the country interviewing leaders of local Tea Party groups, trying to learn “Who are these people?” The answers showed him there’s more to the Tea Party than most folks know. Based on over 63 hours of interviews, and notes from two dozen Tea Party meetings and events around the country. Nothing the interviewees say in the play is made up. |
Tuesday, December 17
Dissent by James Christy
In the near future, the economy of the United States is going through a radical inflation. Burritos cost $35, and the gap between rich and poor has become unbridgeable. Justice Clark, a liberal on the Supreme Court Justice is publically crashing and burning from alcohol abuse, while a serious case of corporate abuse is in front of him, a case that will come down to a close vote. Justin, a freelance journalist is investigating Clark’s self-destruction, when his wife, Lauren, a liberal blogger, going through a six-month bout with agoraphobia, decides to strike up an online conversation with him. And then their friend Maddie reveals a secret about the conservative justice who is opposed to Clark, and this group of liberals decide to take matters into their own hands.
Wednesday, December 18
100 Years by Richard Dresser
In a very odd planned community, the middle-aged Joan and Stevie are eating special food and waiting for a special procedure that will lengthen their lives. In an adjacent identical townhouse senior citizens Raymond and Helen are waiting, too. They share a backyard and, eventually, much more. The twenty-year old Brett is their tour guide/ferryman. A brand new comedy from the writer of Rounding Third.
Thursday, December 19
The Ironbound by Martyna Majok
An immigrant woman waits for the bus after a long day. A man appears. A man always appears. And he has something to offer. Spanning 22 years and three different relationships, every scene is a little war between a man and a woman for their best version of security. What are two people willing to trade and how dirtily are they willing to fight for the cheapest safety in a world that does not value all kinds of people?
Friday, December 20
Trespasser in a Promised Land by Russell Davis
In search of his former love, a young man enters a strange and foreboding place, secluded from the rest of society. Following a letter she wrote to him once in the past he finds that everything has changed since he knew her, and now an ancient prophecy may stand in the way of the future he wants with her.
Saturday, December 21
Us by Joe Sutton
Matt, Mark and Mary’s college-aged son is going through some difficult times, so much so that his parents pull him out of college and bring him home. What transpires is a drama about a generation of highly-educated parents, who, armed with the knowledge of their own college malfeasances and transgressions, and highly aware of the sins of their parents, still cannot communicate or begin to understand their child.
Programs are subject to change, based on artistic need. Please visit the website http://www.ptnj.org/freereadings.php for up-to-the-minute details.
