As promised, I’m posting information about the the new reading series for the writers’ collective that I started back in March. Please come on by to support new writing and a host of theatrical talent! No admission, donations welcome!
Nylon Fusion Collective is pleased to announce its first Reading Series, featuring eight new plays currently being workshopped by the Nylon Fusion Writers Collective. The plays will be presented as staged readings at 8pm on Monday and Tuesday evenings (June 21, 22, 28, 29) during the three-week run of the company’s summer production of Fuente Ovejuna at the Flamboyan Theatre at CSV Cultural Centre.
Monday June 21
In the Center of the Fire
by Alisha Silver
A Hasidic man falls in love with a drag queen as his son is finding out just how far you have to go to outrun your family connections. A story about seeking and searching and watching and finding and loosing.
Uh Fairy Tale
by Joseph Wright
In Uh Fairy Tale Jack is pulled from his lackluster life into Grimms’ Fairy Tale where he is needed to wake the Princess from her 100-year slumber. Unfortunately, Princesses aren’t really his thing.
Tuesday June 22
Sleeping with Strangers
by Jack Karp
In this absurdist comedy, two lovers find out that we don’t fall in love with another person as much as we fall in love with what we make up about them in our imagination.
Cake Light
by Courtney Brooke Lauria
A play about people’s connection to one another. A play about people’s connection to theater. A play about people’s connection to electronics. All lit by the glow of birthday candles (kinda).
Monday June 28
E = (mc)^3
by Calla Videt
1905. Einstein discovers relativity. 2029. Mrs. E is born. 2055. We await the results of a new scientific experiment. A surreal meditation on time, science, measurement and medicine, E = (mc)^3 delves inside several incarnations of one of the world’s most celebrated minds.
The First Settlers
by Kelly Davis
Reverend Julius Blevins and his wife Oletta move to 1960′s Queens and secure themselves as part of a newly-formed black middle class shortly before new gender and racial norms begin to tear their solid marriage apart. Oletta must decide if she wants to keep the vestige of her perfect life or venture into 1970’s New York armed only with women’s intuition and a possibly false sense of independence.
Tuesday June 29
Slouch
by B. Walker Sampson
Skye, Summer, and Ritter are trying to do things from their to do lists: learn the violin, go to the supermarket, stop slouching, and somehow stop comparing their lives to Larry’s.
The Tutor
by Kate Mulley
Meredith doesn’t turn tricks, she teaches them and Greg wants a girlfriend as badly as he wants a perfect score on the SATs. A play about the commerce of sex and intellect and the fine line between the two.
Complete bios for the writers can be found at:http://www.nylonfusion.org/writerscollective.html.
NyLon Fusion Collective is a New York and London based Theatre Company dedicated to inspiring the community and its collective of artists through the exploration of classical and contemporary works and seeking to shed new light on the artistic process.
