 Fresh Ground Pepper presents:
The 7th Annual PlayGround Festival Dec 9th, 10th, 16th, and 17th FGP PlayGround began as an end-of-the-year play reading marathon in December 2009, presenting eight new plays in two days. Since then, PlayGround has evolved into a habitat for emerging theater creators to develop more fully realized experiments. The PlayGround PlayGroup is a year-long, collaborative workshop culminating in the PlayGround Festival, enforcing Fresh Ground Pepper’s mission to bring artists together and present work mid-process to supportive audiences. We are so excited to introduce you to this year’s PlayGroup. Wednesday December 9th: 7:00pm BIG BEND IN THE RED DIRT DESERT by Molly Beach Murphy and Julia Izumi directed by Gabriel Vega Weissman A play of magic realism set inside a rental car on an epic journey across a dream-like Texas void encountering the vast sky, the empty nothingness of the land, and individual reckonings with loss, revenge, and belonging. 8:30pm REX OF ECHO a reading of a new science-fiction novel by Andrew Scoville Rex lives in Echo Park, a new suburb on the first interstellar colony of Echo, where he hides his secret ability to defy physics, running and coasting like none before... that is, until a catastrophic disaster destroys his suburb and he is forced to run for his life. 9:30pm TALES FOR TELLING by James Monaco directed by Annie Tippe These are original tales that feel old and are new: told by James, who loves storytelling more than anything in all the world, and would especially love to tell these new tales to you. Thursday December 10th: 7:00pm POWER GAY by Joe Castle Baker and Chris Tyler directed by Andrew Neisler Sexy, rich, white gay men risk everything to put on the fiercest fundraising gala for the most at-risk gay animals. 9:00pm VIV IS FOR VENGANCE by Lindsey Hope Pearlman directed by Tamilla Woodard The Fresh Prince of Bel- Air meets Euripides' Medea: what really happened when Aunt Vivian was replaced by another mother. Wednesday December 16th: 7:00pm THE GIANTS, parts 1 & 2 by Matthew Jellison directed by Isaac Klein "A skyscraper to the stars, the lovers who live there, and the giant who shows up one day to knock it down.” 9:00pm HOTTENTOTTED by Charly Simpson directed by Colette Robert A play that yarns together the stories and experiences of black women now and then with the life of Sarah Baartman, the Hottentot Venus. Thursday December 17th: 7:00pm THE GULLS by Jamie Effros directed by Teddy Bergman A modern adaptation of Anton Chekov’s The Seagull, spun around the family of Archie Nickels, an aging rock-star turned reality TV Diva on the set of her show: her brother's Long Beach Island, NJ oceanfront estate. 9:30pm LULU IS HUNGRY inspired by Frank Wedekind's The Lulu Plays by Claire Keichel directed by Philip Gates Lulu really takes the cake. She's always on your mind. She's like heroin on a sunny day. Just leaving you behind. A raucous meditation on celebrity, femininity, and performance. Featuring Louise Brooks, Frank Wedekind, Billie Holiday, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Marilyn Monroe, Alfred Hitchcock, Britney Spears, and introducing... Jack the RIPPER! Comments are closed.
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