While we are all observing Governor Newsom’s sheltering in place orders, 36 North has continued to meet weekly through Zoom, sharing our ten-minute plays and other works. We expect to come out of this with strong, with lots of ready to perform.
The members of 36 North.
Check out this Good Times article about Kathy Chetkovich’s work in progress performed by Santa Cruz Shakespeare on July 29, 2019.
Come to 36 North’s next script-in-hand reading, Exactly, written by Tim Woods. Join us on Monday, February 19, 7:00 p.m. at Center Stage Theater.
Exactly begins with Edwin Booth, 75, pleading with the statue of his deceased great, great, grandfather, the 19th century’s pre-eminent actor and interpreter of Hamlet. Contemporary Edwin is a retired New York stage producer and director.
Edwin wants to die. Desperately. But the Dead Actor’s Bureau from the Beyond, keeps Edwin from his goal. Until he restores the fame of his famous patriarch, our 21st century Edwin cannot be allowed to die.
In walks an unknown playwright, a California Space-Cadet with no writing background or credits, seeking a producer and director. Briggs Stratton cannot see obstacles to his goal of getting his new play, Exactly, produced on the New York stage.
Reluctantly, Edwin finds himself taking on this hopeless project. Briggs sets out to cast his play and everyone he meets signs onto this absurd project.
Getting mixed up with a gang of grifters and con-men, Edwin finds himself working with people totally foreign to everything he’s done in the theater—who take him to places he’s never been.
The staged reading will be read by Frank Widman, Steve Capasso, Ali Eppy, Lilly Begovic, Jocelyn McMahon, Drew Crocker, and Scott Kravitz.
No reserved seats! First come, first served.
Contact Tim Woods for questions at timjam49@gmail.com
Come check out the next in a series of script-in-hand readings by 36 North Playwright’s Collective. Game Night, written by Jory Post, can be seen on Monday, November 20, 7:00 p.m. at Center Stage Theater.
Game Night takes a look at family dynamics through the lens of a matriarch, her three adult daughters and their plus ones, as they meet weekly for game night, discussing life and death with a mix of humor and emotion.
Readers include Deborah Bryant, Steve Capasso, Wilma Marcus Chandler, John Chandler, Susan Forrest, Sarah Kaufmann Michael, Spike Wong, and Stuart Woodhams. Narration by Karen Schamberg.
Free admission and refreshments!
Reserve free tickets at brownpapertickets.com
Come to 36 North’s next script-in-hand reading, No Public Access, written by Ruth Elliott. Join us on Monday, August 21, 7:00 p.m. at Center Stage Theater.
No Public Access is a one woman show, starring one woman, read by one woman and written by one woman, however this one woman has multiple voices she wishes to share, multiple people she would like to be seen.
Join 36 North Playwrights’ Collective in a presentation of Four New Shorts written by Steve Capasso. The script in hand reading will be held at Actor’s Theater at 7:00 pm on Monday, June 26. Admission is FREE, though donations are happily welcomed. Refreshments will be served.
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.
Steve Capasso’s You Always Remember is making it’s New York City debut on Tuesday, October 24th, at 7:30 p.m. at the 2017 United Solo festival on Theater Row.
