Our Reader's Theater series is BACK! Join us for three new productions hitting the Ella Fitzgerald Theater Stage on select Monday nights this Summer. The stage is stripped down to the actors with the script. Witness the powerful performance without the distraction of the set. Hear the message in the words as you have never heard them before. This is an in-person event series. Capacity is limited to ensure that proper distancing can be placed between audience members.
Details
Show Dates and Times
All in the Timing - Monday, May 10, 2021 at 7:00 pm - All in the Timing is a collection of one-act plays by the American playwright David Ives, written between 1987 and 1993. It had its premiere Off-Broadway in 1993 at Primary Stages, and was revived at Primary Stages in 2013.[ It was first published by Dramatists Play Service in 1994, with a collection of six plays; however, the updated collection contains fourteen. The short plays are almost all comedies (or comedy-dramas), focusing mainly on language and wordplay, existentialist perspectives on life and meaning, as well as the complications involved in romantic relationships.
The Piano Lesson - Monday, June 14, 2021 at 7:00 pm - The Piano Lesson follows the lives of the Charles family in the Doaker Charles household and an heirloom, the family piano, which is decorated with designs carved by an enslaved ancestor. The play focuses on the arguments between a brother and a sister who have different ideas on what to do with the piano. The brother, Boy Willie, is a sharecropper who wants to sell the piano to buy the land (Sutter's land) where his ancestors toiled as slaves. The sister, Berniece, remains emphatic about keeping the piano, which shows the carved faces of their great-grandfather's wife and son during the days of their enslavement.
The Odd Couple - Monday, July 12, 2021 at 7:00 pm - Florence Unger and Olive Madison, that is, in Neil Simon’s hilarious contemporary comic classic: the female version of The Odd Couple. Instead of the poker party that begins the original version, Ms. Madison has invited the girls over for an evening of Trivial Pursuit. The Pidgeon sisters have been replaced by the two Constanzuela brothers but the hilarity remains the same.
Ticket Price: $5
Ages: 13+ (Ages 13-15 must be accompanied by an adult or older sibling)
Location: The Ella Fitzgerald Theater at Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center
Phone: 757-247-8950
Email: downing-gross@nnva.gov
Website: www.downing-gross.org
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