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SCRIPT CLUB: December 2023 Collection

December 1 through 31
Venue: 
Anywhere you like to read

DECEMBER SCRIPT COLLECTION

Here at the Playwrights' Center, we choose to assume good intent among our members and their work. Yet, we also want to provide a space that allows for constructive feedback from various identities, backgrounds, and experiences. Sometimes, a piece of writing can be unintentionally triggering for a variety of reasons. If you find yourself uncomfortable at any moment, don't feel pressured to continue reading. If you read a play description and are unsure whether it's right for you, please email Alayna Jacqueline Barnes, alaynab@pwcenter.org, for further information—including spoilers if that's what you need.

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TENDERBELLY by Matthew Stephen Smith

Kayleigh Kilmartin has died leaving behind three children, a townhouse in Brooklyn, and the home’s sole lodger named Purse, who everyone seems to love, but whose past remains a mystery. When that past winds up on the Kilmartin doorstep in the form of a former colleague—talking about love even as he’s preparing for violence–-Purse must carefully maneuver to keep that old life from destroying her new one.

Is this script right for you?
This play includes discussions and depictions of addiction and suicide, and has some hand-to-hand violence, as well as brief violence with a knife, and uses demeaning language toward female-identified persons.

*If you have further questions about the script's content to help decide whether this session is right for you, please reach out to me.

THE PEARL AND THE GRAIN OF SAND by Amy Merrill

Greg and Liz are looking forward to celebrating the destination wedding, in the Bahamas, of old friends. An inadvertent remark by Chantal, another wedding guest, provokes an examination of their own marriage. When is it time to throw in the towel?

*If you have further questions about the script's content to help decide whether this session is right for you, please reach out to me.

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