*** FREE THEATER ONLINE ***
BLOOMSDAY LOCK-IN
SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 3PM (STANDARD EST/NY USA TIME 8PM IRISH TIME)
John Turturro, Patrick Bergin, Aidan Gillen, Ian McElhinney, Colin Quinn ( SNL) Spider Stacy (The Pogues), Barry Ward , Billy Carter renowned Irish poets Theo Dorgan & Paula Meehan PLUS over 50 international actors from stage, screen that stretches from Tipperary, Limerick, Galway, Belfast, Dublin, London, Strasbourg, paris, Brooklyn, New York, Los Angeles
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James Joyce was a modernist and this promises to be a thoroughly fresh contemporary take on the novel that nobody wanted to publish & everyone tried to ban. This presentation favors a more dramatic conceit & will be an adaptation that features excerpts from the 1922 version of the book. Bloomsday Lock-in is a play on the current "lockdown" situation in COVID-19, a lock-in in Ireland is typically when the pubs shut but allow patrons to stay drinking and carousing after hours illegally.
THE WORLD PREMIERE SCREENING ON JUNE 20 WILL RUN FOR 1 WEEK ONLY JUNE 20-26
All PROCEEDS & DONATIONS WILL SOLELY BENEFIT CHIPS SOUP KITCHEN & WOMEN’S CENTER IN BROOKLYN
*** PRIMARY STAGES ***
STARTING THIS WEEK: Online Writing Classes at Primary Stages ESPA!
Start a First Draft, keep working on Rewriting Your Draft, update your Artistic Statement, or try your hand at 10-Minute Plays and One Acts. Faculty includes MICHAEL WALKUP (Producing Artistic Director, Page 73), STEPHANIE ZADRAVEC (The Electric Baby), CARIDAD SVICH (OBIE Winner for Lifetime Achievement), ADAM KRAAR (Wild Terrain), and many other award-winning writers who provide practical skills and expert guidance in a collaborative atmosphere. Classes begin THIS WEEK. \
Flexible, artist-friendly payment plans available. http://primarystages.org/espa/writing
*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
The Yale Drama Series is seeking submissions for its 2021 playwriting competition. The winning play will be selected by the series' current judge, Paula Vogel. The winner of this annual competition will be awarded the David Charles Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of their manuscript by Yale University Press, and a staged reading at Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow Theater.
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Shakespeare in Italy seeking short radio dramas - Over the next four weeks we would like you to submit a short play (audio drama) of no longer than 15 minutes - those shortlisted by our panel will be performed over two nights early in July with a director and two actors (max) assigned to each play. Then we will select an overall winner from those performed.
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The 2021 Diverse Voices Playwriting Initiative welcomes submissions for full-length, unproduced plays by playwrights of color in accordance with the mission statement of the Crossroads Project (see below). A diverse panel of judges comprising of faculty, staff, and students will select one playwright as the winner of the contest.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** SUMMER PLAYS ***
THE GIRLS OF SUMMER
Set in 1945, the coach of an All- Negro female baseball team prepares a group of African- American females for an exhibition game against the all white girls team Rockford Peaches.
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SUMMER AND SMOKE
A repressed minister's daughter nurses a longtime unrequited love for the boy next door, who grows up into a playboy whose nature is completely at odds with hers.
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IN THE SUMMER HOUSE
The lives of two eccentric widowed mothers and their daughters are examined in Jane Bowles' absurdist comedy.
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THE FIRST BREEZE OF SUMMER
The matriarch of an upwardly mobile black family remembers her struggles in Leslie Lee's family drama.
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COME SUMMER
An aging peddler and his young companion find adventure while working the Connecticut River Valley in 1840.
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SUMMER OF THE 17th DOLL
Two Australian field workers come to Melbourne for their 17th summer layoff in a row, planning to enjoy themselves with two barmaids, only to find one of the women is now married and must contemplate the fact that their time has passed.
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ALL SUMMER LONG
It chronicles a summer in a Midwestern household which proves a particularly disturbing summer for the family's twelve-year-old son. Young Willie at times achieves a new awareness of some of the facts (and fictions) of life, and at other times has awareness thrust upon him.
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HOW LONG TILL SUMMER
A black attorney runs for Congress but falls prey to an unscrupulous racketeering politico in the hopes of providing a better life for his son.