Event

DEAD OF WINTER play-readings

UP THEATER COMPANY presents

FOUR NEW PLAYS. FOUR SUNDAYS. DEAD OF WINTER. LAYER UP.

Remaining Reading:
Sun, Feb 8
TAMARACK HOUSE by MICHAEL DOWLING
directed by Anya Saffir
A big, old New England boarding house's days are numbered, as giant developments are encroaching. Even though it's run down and beat up, it still has hidden potential not unlike its five current residents, who need to come up with a plan...and quick.

Previous Readings:
Sun, Jan 11
LOST/NOT FOUND by KIRBY FIELDS
directed by Matt Higgins
Things do not go as planned when a trio from Washington Heights detains a missing autistic girl with the hopes of driving up the reward money for her safe return.

Sun, Jan 18
BLUE MYSTERY by GILBERT GIRION
directed by Josh Liveright
Detective Blue has a story to tell. Willard Smith is dead, killed by a member of his own family. Blue is trying to determine which one. But the more he interrogates the Smiths, the more he finds himself connected to this family...and this crime.

Sun, Jan 25
AMERICAN DRUM CIRCLE by VANESSA SHEALY
directed by Melissa Attebery
Mandy hopes to escape the failures of her father by taking refuge in an intense relationship with Olujimi, a young Nigerian emigré. But he has family skeletons of his own. Together, their family roots entangle them in a web of fraud and falsehood.

(no reading Sunday Feb 1)