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01/19/2009


The Ruth Easton New Play Series:

Down in Mississippi

By Carlyle Brown Free

Three College students, an African American man, a white woman and a white man go down to the dangerous world of Mississippi in 1964 to register Mississippi Negroes to vote. Along the way they discover that they have to change themselves in order to change the world. A Gospel play with music, Down in Mississippi explores the heart of the Civil Rights Movement.

The Ruth Easton New Play Series is the public face of the Ruth Easton Lab, an exciting selection of new plays from the Center's Core Writers.

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02/02/2009


The Ruth Easton New Play Series:

Agnes under the Big Top

a fairy tale

By Aditi Brennan Kapil Free

WORK-IN-PROGRESS

In this Busker’s tale, Agnes, an immigrant home-care worker, discovers that she has terminal cancer and sets in motion events steering her rheumatoid, bedridden employer on a collision course with a former ringmaster driving a subway train.

The Ruth Easton New Play Series is the public face of the Ruth Easton Lab, an exciting selection of new plays from the Center's Core Writers.

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02/10/2009


By Jamie Hultgren Free

A Roundtable Reading is a fascinating hands-on cold-reading experience, a great way for playwrights to gain a rare understanding of their script's performance power with the help of talented Twin Cities actors and a professional dramaturg. Event time is 6:30 pm.

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03/02/2009


The Ruth Easton New Play Series:

The Three Christs of Ypsilanti

By Dan O'Brien Free

The Three Christs of Ypsilanti is the story of three men who thought they were Jesus Christ and the doctor who tried to change their minds. Adapted from the seminal psychological study of the same title by Dr. Milton Rokeach.

The Ruth Easton New Play Series is the public face of the Ruth Easton Lab, an exciting selection of new plays from the Center's Core Writers.

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03/16/2009


GENERAL MEMBERS' ROUNDTABLE READING SERIES:

In Memory of a Russian Playwright

By Larry Greenstein Free

A Roundtable Reading is a fascinating hands-on cold-reading experience, a great way for playwrights to gain a rare understanding of their script's performance power with the help of talented Twin Cities actors and a professional dramaturg. Event time is 6:30 pm.

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04/06/2009


The Ruth Easton New Play Series:

Hawking

By Lonnie Carter Free

Hawking is the fictionalized account of the last day on earth of Stephen Hawking (he may be going to Mars), aka Prometheus Bound, as he is visited by artists, philosophers, politicians and birds, some based on real folks, some mythological folks, some both, at the Royal Observatory in London. Each is disabled - blind, lame, mute, limbless, et cetera; each extraordinary. Each trying to prevent Hawking from revealing his answer to the universe, if in fact, he really has it.

The Ruth Easton New Play Series is the public face of the Ruth Easton Lab, an exciting selection of new plays from the Center's Core Writers.

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04/20/2009


GENERAL MEMBERS' ROUNDTABLE READING SERIES:

DELICATE PARTICLE LOGIC

By Jennifer Blackmer Free

A Roundtable Reading is a fascinating hands-on cold-reading experience, a great way for playwrights to gain a rare understanding of their script's performance power with the help of talented Twin Cities actors and a professional dramaturg. Event time is 6:30 pm.

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05/04/2009


The Ruth Easton New Play Series:

T or C

By Vincent Delaney Free

Can we ever really know our children? And what do we become, when darkness claims them? A year after their son commits a vicious school shooting, Sheridan and Jane come together in the New Mexico desert to reinvent themselves. But that falls apart when they meet Soledad, a casino girl with a gift for poker.

The Ruth Easton New Play Series is the public face of the Ruth Easton Lab, an exciting selection of new plays from the Center's Core Writers.

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05/11/2009


GENERAL MEMBERS' ROUNDTABLE READING SERIES:

In Poland

By Jayne Benjulian Free

A Roundtable Reading is a fascinating hands-on cold-reading experience, a great way for playwrights to gain a rare understanding of their script's performance power with the help of talented Twin Cities actors and a professional dramaturg. Event time is 6:30 pm.

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06/08/2009


GENERAL MEMBERS' ROUNDTABLE READING SERIES:

It Will End in Tears

By Tonia Howick Free

A Roundtable Reading is a fascinating hands-on cold-reading experience, a great way for playwrights to gain a rare understanding of their script's performance power with the help of talented Twin Cities actors and a professional dramaturg. Event time is 6:30 pm.

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