36 North: A Playwrights’ Collective presents RAILING, by Wilma Marcus Chandler. This next in our series of developmental script-in-hand readings facilitates moving our works from page to stage and allow us to hear our new plays in front of audiences for the first time. RAILING will be minimally blocked, with few or no sets. As with our past shows, audiences are invited to give feedback after each evening’s presentation.
RAILING is written in a five-cycle, short-play format and takes inspiration from the classical Japanese Noh theatre, but addresses very American issues of family life and many of its tribulations. Featuring a cast of 12 actors and traditional klezmer music by Dan Phillips, it is followed by a Q&A with the audience. Chandler’s new work, recently published by Hummingbird Poetry Press, THE NIGHT BRIDGE, also takes much inspiration from classical Asian art.
When and Where and Who:
7 p.m., Monday, April 24 at Center Stage, 1001 Center Street, Santa Cruz
With Actors: Dan Phillips, Sarah Kauffman, Joyce Michaelson, Scott Kravitz, Mauricio Samano, Steve Capasso, Hannah Eckstein, Helene Simkin Jara, Andrew Stewart, Marcus Cato, Lisa Hadley and Karen Schamberg.
Cost:
Free. Donations are welcomed.
For Further Information: Susan Forrest, susancforrest@gmail.com, 831-426-2031
Susan Forrest’s 10 minute play Interview With An Old Bitch, is currently a semi-finalist in Little Black Dress Ink’s 2017 Female Playwrights ONSTAGE Festival (inspiration: “Hot Mess”). Susan’s play received a staged reading at Theater Unbound in St. Paul, Minnesota.