Please join Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore and the Ivoryton Playhouse for an introduction and in-depth discussion of the 2018 Women Playwrights’ Initiative.
The Women Playwrights Initiative develops new one-act plays by and about women, and the issues that shape their lives. Friendship, political and economic advocacy, sexual satisfaction, aging, gender equality, racial issues, marriage, singlehood, motherhood, careers, and power.
The Initiative provides a safe, nurturing environment for play development, including a week of intensive rehearsal with the playwrights, directors, and actors. It will culminate in a staged reading festival in February/March 2018, Passion, Power, Prose: Women Playwrights Initiative featuring interactive talkbacks with the playwrights, directors, actors, and audience.
WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS’ INITIATIVE: PASSION POWER PROSE 2018
at THE IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE, 103 Main St, Ivoryton CT
860-767-7318
Friday, March 2 staged reading at 7 PM
HENRY, LOUISE, AND HENRI by Kathleen Cahill directed by Linda MacCluggage
The transformative and unfathomable effect of art is hilariously depicted when a long-married couple go for lunch in a Paris restaurant after a morning spent viewing Matisse paintings.
TO FALL IN LOVE WITH ANYONE, DO THIS by Jennifer Lane, directed by Hannah Simms
Scientists claim that there are 36 questions you can ask to fall in love with anyone. But can this seemingly simple exercise save even Wyatt and Merryn's marriage?
Saturday, March 3 staged reading at 7 PM
BLOOD by Yael Haskal, directed by Kathryn Markey
When a young woman elects to donate blood to a sick pastor and pillar of the community, hellish truths are exposed forcing a devastating decision for both her and the nurse.
THE GENTLEMAN’S PACT by Karen Howes directed by Addie Gorlin
A witty, acerbic look at marriage, fidelity, and self-determination when Bill, a college professor, tells his colleague, Arthur, that he wants to marry Arthur’s wife, Evelyn. Can their pact survive Evelyn’s unexpected response?
For tickets go to www.ivorytonplayhouse.org or call 860-767-7318.
$20 Adults; $15 Seniors 65+; $10 Students. Both night package $30 Adults; $25 Seniors 65+; $10 Students (Buy Friday, get Saturday free)
Kathleen Cahill’s awards include the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Playwriting Awards, a Massachusetts Artists Foundation Award, a Rockefeller Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts New American Works Grant, three Edgerton Foundation Awards, and a Drama League Award. Her play Charm was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; her play The Persian Quarter was nominated for a Steinberg Award. (Both published by Dramatic Publishing.) She writes for Alan Cumming when he introduces Mystery! on PBS. She is Playwright-in-Residence at the Salt Lake Acting Company.
Yael Haskal is a playwright and performer studying at Vassar College. She is currently working as the Literary Intern for the Manhattan Theatre Club, where she enjoys expanding her knowledge of and passion for dramatic literature. Yael's next project is a full-length play about the effects of a capital punishment case on a small town in Utah.
Karen Howes is a recipient of several arts grants, is published in a Best-of Anthology by Smith and Kraus, and a winner of the Maxum Mazumdor New Play Prize and The New Science Driven Play Award. Her plays have won several festivals and productions, including at The Alley Theatre, The Academy Theatre, The Bickford, Playwright’s Theatre of NJ, Playwright’s Roundtable, and The Blank. She is a resident playwright at SkyLight Theater in Los Angeles.
Jennifer Lane received her MFA in playwriting from Columbia University and is represented by Amy Wagner of Abrams Artists Agency in New York. For more information about Jennifer and her work, please visit jennifer-lane.net.