StreetCART
Script-in-hand
presentation of a new play followed by a discussion with the author
WHEN: One performance
only Saturday, May 18, at 2 pm
WHERE: Cranford Community Center, 224 Walnut Avenue
TICKETS: free, thanks in part to the sponsorship of the Friends of the Cranford Library and a Union County LAP Grant. The event is part of a monthly series of new play readings presented at the Center by The Theater Project in the fall, winter, and spring.
The Theater Project will present a
script-in-hand performance of StreetCART by Lynn Aylward. The presentation, the last of the 2024
spring series, will be followed by a lively discussion with the
playwright, director, actors, and audience.
StreetCART is a riff on
Tennessee William’s play A Streetcar Named Desire. It tells
the story of a couple living a quintessential and happy San Francisco
life—Will’s in tech, Enrique’s a chef and they live in an
overpriced apartment in the Mission. Will is pioneering a new
augmented reality technology, CART, with huge implications for
psychotherapy. When Will’s drama queen sister Alice shows up on the
doorstep, the temptation to test the new tech becomes … desirable.
Lynn Aylward is an emerging playwright who
recently moved from San Francisco via Scotland to New Jersey. Her
short plays have been produced in California, Florida, and New York.
Her full-length plays have been semi-finalists in the Bay Area
Playwrights Festival and the City Lights Theatre (San Jose) Festival.
She taught playwriting and directed for Rising Voices, a theater
group for incarcerated women in Oakland, CA, and is a co-founder of
Same Boat Theater, the Bay Area’s first eco-justice performance group.
Her full-length play Three Chords and the Truth was in the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2021.
The Theater Project, a professional theater company,
contributes to a more thoughtful, inspired, and creative community by
connecting audiences to new work, rising artists, and
thought-provoking conversations about the issues of our times. More
information is available at TheTheaterProject.org. or by calling
(908) 809-8865.
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