5/2 - Roundtable - CHASING HONEY
by Laura Shamas
In CHASING HONEY quests for missing honey bees, spirit dreams, and college plans collide, affecting two native American families. Sandy, whose father is a Shadow Wolf about to embark on a secret mission, becomes involved with Len, the son of a Cherokee migrant beekeeper.
Directed by Gita Reddy
5/3 - Roundtable - REHAVIA
by Yossi Yzraely
After years in mental hospital, Doc returns to the apartment where -so he believes- a murder that he was involved with, was committed, in order to rent it. He plans to write his biography there and thus free himself from his past. During the contract negotiation with Arnon, the owner, details from their past intertwine tragedly. The play ends unexpectedly when Arnon, discovering that Doc is his father, unintentionally kills him.
Directed by Sturgis Warner
5/7 - Roundtable - ME YOU US THEM
by Andrea Lepcio
Two hungry boys meet and make friends. A modern woman frightened by the world around her and her inadequate response searches alone. With the invitation of a third hungry boy, the woman takes on the role of.....? Friend of a friend? and leads their insurgent journey to the Center of Things. A friendship dance. Directed by Shilarna Stokes
5/8 - Roundtable - HELL AND HIGH WATER by Yvette Sirker
Yvette Sirker’s take on security and homelessness in America is based on her experience as a New Orleans refugee living in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. A raw, potent, irreverent, poetic, and surprisingly beautiful account of three refugees struggling to survive an American apocalypse. Directed by Daniella Topol
5/10 - LitWing Meeting
5/12 - Roundtable - COLD FEET by Jim PriceThink Michigan. Snow. Cold. Pump Boys without the Dinettes. Four committed bachelors with a bar, a band, and one unspeakable secret. Now you're getting warm...
Directed by Kaitlin Thompson
5/13 - Monthly Meeting of the Minds - A monthly writers' group where material is read cold around a table with or without actors. Writers include: Jason Grote, Rajiv Joseph, Aasif Mandvi, Chiori Miyagawa, Ed Napier, Sung Rno, Betty Shamieh, and Anna Ziegler. Facilitated by Dominic D'Andrea and Linsay Firman.
5/14 - Roundtable - FOR A BARBARIAN WOMAN by Saviana Stanescu
Interweaves a present-day love story between a Romanian woman and an American soldier from the NATO base in Constanta and a fictional relationship between Ovid and a Barbarian woman from Tomis. The play touches on the contradictions of civilization and the primitive, conquered and conqueror, power and poverty, rational and irrational. Ovid’s voluminous correspondence from his exile has been used as source material, as well as recent news from Romania. Directed by Daniella Topol
Arthur Munby and Frederick Furnivall, scholarly footnotes in the soot-covered stories of Victorian London, live lives fueled by progressive ideals and sexual compulsions. A history play about the limits of love, equality, and biography. Directed by Rob Urbinati
5/27 - Roundtable – HALAL BROTHERS by Alaudin Ullah
On the day of Malcolm X's asassination, two Bengali brothers who own a Halal store in Harlem come to a crossroads in their relationship between themselves and Islam. One brother consumed with the American dream, and the other's awakening to the hypocrisy of the dream during the turbulent 1960's while reluctanct to tell his sibling of his relationship with his African American girlfriend.
5/28 - Roundtable – BITING NAILS by Colin Greer
BITING NAILS is about Walt, the great-grandchild of Walt Whitman, who bites his nails incessantly to control his feelings. He's in the army, which prefers he neither control his feelings nor bites his nails. Directed by Daniella Topol
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