2009 Groundbreakers Reading Series
| terraNOVA COLLECTIVE presents
GROUNDBREAKERS READING SERIES play readings from the 2009 Groundbreakers Playwrights Program Performance Space 122 150 First Avenue at 9th Street All readings begin at 7pm. |
Monday, February 22, 7pm
THE ATWATER PROJECT
By Lucy Gillespie
Directed by Megan Carter
A red neck, blues-playing sonofabitch spearheads a national campaign to elect George H. W. Bush to the Presidency. Bulldozing careers and smearing good names, Lee Atwater’s way with the ladies and the media put him on top of American politics, until the day he discovered an inoperable brain tumor. Through song, soul and sass, Atwater comes face to face with his greatest fear – himself.
Monday, March 1, 7pm
SITA/SATI Apu A-sleep
a dream and some play
By Snehal Desai
Directed by Tea Alagic
A sleeping Apu dreams. He dreams of his death by a slurpee machine. He dreams of his the Pilgrims and the Indians. He dreams of his wife Sita Desi. He dreams about brown-ness. Apu sleeps and dreams...And as he dreams a wild and raucous company comes to life threatening to turn his dreams into a nightmare and force him and his wife to make the heartbreaking choice between assimilation and preservation.
Monday, March 8, 7pm
SUICIDE ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
By Susan Ferrara
Directed by Jessi D. Hill
Timely and terrifying, this tale is one woman's fight to get her head above water after the death of her husband, which left her drowning in debt. Faced with supporting two young sons on her own, Fran reaches out to her sister and brother-in-law for help, but this well-meaning duo doesn't know the first thing about how to fill the void. Desperate and out of options, Fran begins receiving phone calls from a mysterious man offering help. But, the voice on the other end of the line has a grander agenda, and Fran is only a small part of a dark movement to change government policy.
THE ATWATER PROJECT
By Lucy Gillespie
Directed by Megan Carter
A red neck, blues-playing sonofabitch spearheads a national campaign to elect George H. W. Bush to the Presidency. Bulldozing careers and smearing good names, Lee Atwater’s way with the ladies and the media put him on top of American politics, until the day he discovered an inoperable brain tumor. Through song, soul and sass, Atwater comes face to face with his greatest fear – himself.
Monday, March 1, 7pm
SITA/SATI Apu A-sleep
a dream and some play
By Snehal Desai
Directed by Tea Alagic
A sleeping Apu dreams. He dreams of his death by a slurpee machine. He dreams of his the Pilgrims and the Indians. He dreams of his wife Sita Desi. He dreams about brown-ness. Apu sleeps and dreams...And as he dreams a wild and raucous company comes to life threatening to turn his dreams into a nightmare and force him and his wife to make the heartbreaking choice between assimilation and preservation.
Monday, March 8, 7pm
SUICIDE ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE
By Susan Ferrara
Directed by Jessi D. Hill
Timely and terrifying, this tale is one woman's fight to get her head above water after the death of her husband, which left her drowning in debt. Faced with supporting two young sons on her own, Fran reaches out to her sister and brother-in-law for help, but this well-meaning duo doesn't know the first thing about how to fill the void. Desperate and out of options, Fran begins receiving phone calls from a mysterious man offering help. But, the voice on the other end of the line has a grander agenda, and Fran is only a small part of a dark movement to change government policy.
