The Lark Timeline
Playwrights' Week 2012
Meet the Writers
Mon., Sep. 24 @ 7pm
hosted by Morgan Jenness
The writers read excerpts from their work and mingle at our opening night reception.
TRANQUIL
by Andrew Rosendorf
directed by Kristin Horton
Wed., Sep. 26 @ 7pm
An estranged brother returns home years after causing his sister to become paraplegic and is forced to confront his actions as well as his sister’s budding sexuality.
SECRET IDENTITY
by Chris Weikel
directed by Samuel Buggeln
Thu., Sep. 27 @ 3pm
A teenager must deal with the constant humiliation of the school bully, his changing ideas of who he is sexually and creatively, and try to balance his relationship between his real-world best friend and the increasingly intrusive fictional characters he’s created to help him through the day.
#nyc
by Kyle Warren
directed by Danny Sharron
Thu., Sep. 27 @ 7pm
As cataclysm looms, six New Yorkers’ lives intersect, leading a power-hungry aide, a struggling author and an outspoken journalist to uncover a devastating series of lies.
DENNY & LILA
by Corinna Schulenburg
directed by Shelley Butler
Fri., Sep. 28 @ 3pm
Jabber tells us what happens to legendary con artists Denny and Lila when an Alabama con goes wrong.
HUNGER
by Anna Moench
directed by Robert Ross Parker
Fri., Sep. 28 @ 7pm
In the sandy hills of China’s Loess Plateau, a farming couple mourns the death of their only son. Their search for an illegal afterlife bride is complicated by the fact that before his death their son committed an act of horrifying violence, leaving them outcasts in their community.
HALFWAY, NEBRASKA
by Briandaniel Oglesby
directed by Lisa Rothe
Sat., Sep. 29 @ 3pm
Sheila must drive her troubled adoptive son, Nate, to Nebraska before the sunset of the Safe Haven law which permits parents to abandon their children at hospitals to become wards of the state.
THIS IS WITTENBERG
by Lauren Gunderson
directed by Sean Daniels
Sat., Sep. 29 @ 7pm
Based on the true history of Hamlet’s genesis; science and fiction converge when a Nobleman and a Prince end up as grad school roommates.
