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You're invited!
18th annual
Play Festival Finalists Readings
Enlow Recital
Hall
June 8-11, 2023
You are invited to the 18th Annual Play
Festival Finalists Readings, featuring the four finalists
of the 2023 Premiere Play Festival.
This is a FREE event.
Reservations are strongly encouraged!
To reserve your seat, follow the RSVP
button, fill out the Google Form. You can also RSVP by emailing premiere@kean.edu
or by calling Christina Hoffman, Director of Marketing and Audience
Development, at 908‑737‑4077.
RSVP
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The Fertile River
By
Vincent Terrell Durham
Directed by
Marshall Jones III
Thursday, June 8, @ 7:00 pm
It’s the summer of 1958 and Mrs. Sarah
Woods has been visiting colored families in a small rural North Carolina
community on a mission from the State. Cora Lee Burden, grandmother of a
mentally challenged child, has no idea what a white social worker would
want with her family. But being a colored woman of the south, she knows the
visit is a call for caution.
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Uhuru
By
Gloria Majule
Directed by
Stori Ayers
Friday, June 9, @ 7:00 pm
Mshale, a Mount Kilimanjaro tour guide,
dreams of marrying a white woman and moving to the West. Sprite sets out to
decolonize what he deems “his mountain”. Henry and Frannie are white
missionaries who claim to be Tanzanian. As the four journey up to the roof
of Africa, the looming ghost of colonialism dictates who gets to reach the
peak, and who gets left behind.
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Flowers for Men
By
Christian Mendonça
Directed by
John J. Wooten
Saturday, June 10, @ 7:00 pm
Henri, a social worker, gets funding to
test out his pilot program, "Flowers for Men," a five-week healing
journey that asks men to nourish a flower into blossoming and to heal a
relationship in their personal lives. Easier said than done. A review of
toxic masculinity, machismo, forgiveness, and the grace and self-love that
men often fail to afford themselves and others.
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Diversion
By
Scott Organ
Directed by
John J. Wooten
Sunday, June 11, @ 3:00 pm
Emilia is a devoted nurse in an ICU unit,
highly regarded by her boss and her peers. When it’s discovered that
someone on the unit is stealing medicine, the nurses are unsettled,
particularly when an outsider shows up, effectively placing them all under
a microscope. When the culprit is finally revealed, the nurses must fight
to save themselves and the integrity of the unit.
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Venue Location
Enlow Recital Hall
215 North Ave, Hillside, NJ 07205
Please park in the parking lot adjacent
to the building. All parking spots are available.
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Premiere Stages
Premiere Stages is made possible in part through funding from W. John Bauer
and Nancy Boucher, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, The Geraldine
R. Dodge Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Dubose and Dorothy Heyward
Foundation, The Northfield Bank Foundation, The Hyde and Watson Foundation,
The Union Foundation, E.J. Grassmann Trust, Carole Shaffer-Koros and Robert
Koros, ExxonMobil Foundation, The New Jersey Theatre Alliance, Investors
Foundation, The Union County HEART Grant and through the generous support
of individual patrons and local organizations. Discover Jersey Arts is our
marketing partner. Visit www.jerseyarts.com
for more information about other arts programming happening around the
Garden State.
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programs that reflect a diverse group of individuals from all ethnic and racial
backgrounds, national origins, nationalities, ancestry, religious groups,
gender expression or identities, sexual orientation, political beliefs,
ages, abilities and disabilities.
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1000 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ
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