Who: Open to Playwrights' Center members who want their work read; nonmembers can come to read, listen or contribute to discussion.

What: A chance for members to get together and read plays. These are informal sessions.

When: Selected Sundays, 5-7 pm

Four years ago Bryan abandoned his labor of love, a newspaper for truckers. Now he’s returned—with no word of where he’s been—and things have changed. His former lover is filled with rage, his new coworker is filled with incessant adoration, and his paper is filled with personal ads. As he considers giving up for good, Bryan searches for what he couldn’t find on the road: a way to keep faith in humanity.

Creating a play from your dreams can start with a single visual impression, a snippet of dialog, or an internally audible sound of music. Learn to recognize these starts as magical portals to our collective consciousness; the matrix of where stories we want to tell live.

As the fires that burned Troy smolder, the once-proud and regal Queen Hecuba finds herself homeless, widowed and enslaved by the Greek conquerors. In the hours before she is to sail to Greece in chains she discovers that two of her surviving children will pay the blood debt of war with their lives.

A Moor King and his chief Eunuch fall in love with a slave woman, whose enchanted nomadic spirit refuses to be confined by their harem walls. 

Olivia and her deadbeat husband come to squat in her family’s boarded-up antebellum estate in New Orleans. But the vicious crime that shuttered the house has also shaken its spiritual peace, plunging Olivia into a horror story that will unravel family secrets and challenge her very identity. A Southern Gothic melange of magic, murder, and the dark legacy of servitude that continues to haunt the region.

This seminar will explore how to invigorate dialogue by infusing scenes and plays with central dilemmas.

Who: Open to Playwrights' Center members who want their work read; nonmembers can come to read, listen or contribute to discussion.

What: A chance for members to get together and read plays. These are informal sessions.

When: Selected Sundays, 5-7 pm

Presented at the Playwrights' Center by Sandbox Theatre

Join Sandbox Theatre as we explore text-generating techniques away from the computer and out in motion. Using a series of exercises that start with the body and rely on collaboration, Sandbox will guide participants through fun, fast, creative processes. This session is open to playwrights of all experience levels who are willing to take off their shoes, get out of their own heads, and play with a group.

Fourth grade was hard enough before Brahman discovered he was intersex—or in the words of his traditional Indian aunt, a hijra. In this literal stand-up comedy show, Brahman shares the hilarious and moving story of how he/she found an identity in the collision of ancient and contemporary, east and west, and male and female.

This seminar will delve into the relationships between playwrights, dramaturgs, and playwrights.

Who: Open to Playwrights' Center members who want their work read; nonmembers can come to read, listen or contribute to discussion.

What: A chance for members to get together and read plays. These are informal sessions.

When: Selected Sundays, 5-7 pm

We'll improvise little scenes based on objects that you bring in and write from those. If you have an object that reminds you of a character you're working on, bring it in. Or just bring something in your house that catches your fancy.

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