Event

WRITER'S WEEKEND - A New Musical

5th Wall Theatre presents
A Workshop Staging of
Writer's Weekend
Book by V. Mark Covington, Lyrics by Rebecca Elizabeth Jones, Music by Paul R. Bartsch
Directed by Billy Christopher Maupin

November 4, 8PM
The Speakeasy
528 N 2nd St
Richmond, VA 23219

Come a little early and order to dinner to have during the show!

Tickets only $10!
($5 Students/Subscribers/Theatre Professionals)

Elizabeth Brown, frustrated, unpublished writer, has arrived at 'The Porches,' an antebellum bed and breakfast and writer's retreat in rural Virginia, to facilitate a weekend writer's workshop and whip a group of aspiring writers into literary shape. And she has her work cut out for her. Her group includes Prescott Moore, formerly Captain Fabulous, a B-grade television actor, attempting fine tune his play Rickets - The Musical , but when he encounters Zebula Nebulon, self-published science fiction writer and a consummate fan, his former identity returns to haunt him. Ed. R. Thompson, retired newspaper reporter turned crime noir novelist, butts heads with Sojourn Word, angry slam poet from the suburbs. Desiree Lamoure, successful romance writer (and Elizabeth's former English teacher), sets her bodice-ripping sights on seducing Miles Stanley, a young technical writer who specializes in trains. The writers go through hook-ups and throw downs and genre switches as they hone their craft.Now to top it off, a major literary agency has sent their most critical agent, Roxanne Gold, to attend the group's workshop recital.