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Monday, July 12, 2021

TONIGHT: RESTORATION | 7 new plays

 

Monday at 7:30 PM EDT, enjoy seven world premieres in one night. This benefit event is the 11th installment of our annual Short New Play Festival, presented online LIVE

 

 

 

This year's theme is RESTORATION. The evening will bring you works by some of the most exciting up-and-coming writers from across the country, penning classically inspired ten-minute plays alongside commissioned playwright Obie Award winner José Rivera. This year’s winning playwrights are Constance Congdon, Roz CornejoGeorge LaVigne, David Lefkowitz, Abigail C. Onwunali, and Charlotte Rahn-Lee.

 

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SHORT NEW PLAY FESTIVAL 2021
An Online Benefit Reading
TONIGHT! MONDAY, JULY 12, 2021
7:30 PM EDT | LIVESTREAM

The evening will be directed by Margot Bordelon and Timothy Douglas. The cast for the event features Franchelle Stewart Dorn, Sheria Irving, Marjorie Johnson, Sara Koviak, Anthony Michael Lopez, Anthony Michael Martinez, Junior Nyong'o, Abigail C. Onwunali, Luis Quintero, Reggie D. White, and Nathan Winkelstein.

 

 

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The 2021 Short New Play Festival: RESTORATION will premiere live TONIGHT at 7:30 PM EDT. A recording will be available until 7:00 PM EDT this Friday, July 16 – then it disappears. Register here for FREE TICKETS. 

The 11th Annual Short New Play Festival is made possible by the leadership support of

 

Constance Congdon's

IF THIS BE NOT A GOOD PLAY THEN THE DEVIL IS IN IT.

Deep in a night of 1599, on the banks of the Thames, players from one theater (disassembled to escape abusive rent payments) wait for barges to carry their lumber across the river, where they will build another theater.

 

Roz Cornejo's

ECHO

A twist on the Greek myth of Narcissus and Echo. What happens when you’re in love with someone who only loves themself?

 

George LaVigne's

THE WOLF TREE

Just past the turn of the 17th century, Captain Pouch, a revolutionary leader of the Midland revolt in hiding, encounters a simple shepherdess beneath the Wolf Tree.

 

David Lefkowitz's

RESTORATION PLAYHOUSE

The artistic director and stage manager of a tiny New York theater face obstacles, post-pandemic.

 

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Abigail C. Onwunali's

JEWEL

A modern-day short play written after the character Sidi from Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel, this play explores the complexities of what it means to chase after the "American Dream."

 

Charlotte Rahn-Lee's

THE MISANTHROPE BREAKS HIS QUARANTINE

The year is 2023. COVID is over, and everyone has left social isolation and moved on with their lives...everyone, that is, except Alceste.

 

José Rivera's

LUNAR

On a cool summer night five close teenage friends—two Latinos, two Blacks, and one white woman—get together in a rundown basketball court in Brooklyn to watch a total lunar eclipse. 

 

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Red Bull Theater’s annual Short New Play Festival has generated over 3,000 new short plays of classic themes and heightened language, presenting over 72 of them in a one-night only Festival performance with some of New York’s finest actors and directors. In its first 10 years, the commissioned playwrights have included Marcus Gardley, John Guare, Jeremy O. Harris, David Ives, Ellen McLaughlin, Dael Orlandersmith, Theresa Rebeck, Anne Washburn, Doug Wright, and winning entries by writers such as Anchuli Felicia King, Patricia Ione Lloyd, Lynn Rosen, and Jen Silverman. Stage Rights has published a 4-volume collection of the plays from the first 8 years of Red Bull Theater’s annual Short New Play Festival as RED BULL SHORTS.  

This special benefit reading is Pay What You Can. All of our current programs are FREE. If you’re able, please consider making a donation with your registration to support our online activity and our return to in-person programming. THANK YOU.


 

Red Bull Theater wishes to express its gratitude to the Performers’ Unions: ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS, AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS, and SAG-AFTRA through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear in this program.