Series A: June 11, 12,
13 – 8pm
Series B: June 18, 19, 20
– 8pm
At Boston Playwrights’
Theatre
949 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02466
(directions)
Tickets: $17
To purchase tickets, visit Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
online
ticket sales or call 866-811-4111.
Discounts are available for seniors, students; for Playwrights'
Platform, NOMTI, and Stage Source members; and for BPT
subscribers.
Overview
Each year in March a Playwrights' Platform committee selects a
vibrant variety of member scripts to be produced in our annual June
showcase. These new short plays include comedies and dramas
performed by our talented Actors-in-Residence — Boston area actors of
all ages who perform our plays throughout the year. Each play has
its own director, selected by the playwright, from a pool of well
known and talented directors from the Boston area.
Audience members participate in the festivities by voting for
their favorite plays and actors after each performance. Our
festival culminates in a popular Awards Ceremony where we honor
Audience Choice for Best Play, Best Actor, Best Director and
Playwrights' Choice for Best Play for each series. We sell out, so
get your tickets early!
ENVIA! - At Work & Play
Kelly DuMar
If you won't tell ENVIA! your zip code,
will you at least let her guess? Whether she's auditioning for your
show, ringing up your purchase, offering you a free sample of
perfume in the mall or a second opinion in a doctor's office,
ENVIA!'s comic monologues will inspire you to lighten up, laugh,
and live more creatively - now!
So Far, So Good
Hortense Gerardo
Two brothers captured in photos stay cool
under the white-hot heat of posterity.
Angela & Her Dad
George Matry Masselam
Angela seeks to save her alcoholic father
who is living on the streets of Boston. He doesn't want to be
saved. Which of them needs salvation more?
Home for Christmas
William Miller
The holidays find a family in a period of
transition. A tragedy in the recent past has changed them once; now
time and distance are forcing them to reevaluate how they
feel.
Just Some Fatherly Advice
Scott Welty
As they watch the game on TV, a father
gives his son some unsolicited but long thought out advice.
Intermission
Randomness of Nature
Lynne S. Brandon
Will falling in love with the wrong person
end the career of a great college basketball coach?
Del Mar
Judith Plummer
Desperate and on the run, Joe finds refuge
on Del Mar beach with the lovely Ingenie, but forces conspire
against these unlikely lovers.
Misha Chekov
Ludmilla Anselm
Sixty-five year old actor and his wife
discuss their life. The fate of a famous Russian actor in
America.
Bridge
Ron Radice
Long after midnight atop a river's bridge,
the reflecting city lights tease your desires and hopes - they'll
come true if you want them to.
Perspective
Peter M. Floyd
A couple find that they seem to have been
living in different histories.
Write Something For Me
Robert Boulrice
A delightful bit of physical comedy with
aspects of the tragic, a bit of seduction, and even a surprise at
the end.
List
Ron Pullins
In this monologue a woman is a compulsive
maker of lists and, now that she has committed the most horrendous
crime a woman can commit, reading from her list gives her strength,
helps her steel her nerves so she can emerge from this moment of
horror, and act surprised.
Smoke
Dan Bancroft
A dying man's love of cigarettes and Lauren
Bacall.
Void
Don Tongue
When a frustrated playwright gives up, what
happens to his characters who are trapped in his unfinished play
with nothing but a cellphone, a pencil, and the unfinished script.
The characters are left to figure out their world and eventually
they learn how to control it.
Intermission
Boy Meets Girl
Michael Quint
Imagine you're 50 and dating - you're
traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight
and sound... but of mind... and no sex. The Twilight Zone? Not
quite - 10 minutes of verbal madcap lunacy as 4 characters regale
their confidants with the events (or non-events) of the night
before.
Love at First Sight
Bruno Alterescu
Two women, one man. A dream. Loves, kisses,
jealousy, betrayal, doubt, a promise and maybe some subdued
laughs.
Class Act
Holly L. Jensen
Stacey and Bailey are high school
sweethearts until a Shakespearean sonnet drives them apart in a way
that no one imagined.
Her Honor
Ellen Davis Sullivan
Evidence is on ice and the Mayor is losing
her cool.
Amerika!
Lydia Bruce and Sandy Burns
When glasnost confronts consumerist excess,
can 'boom-boom' win the battle?
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