Join The Bechdel Group for an evening of reading 30 minute sections of two different plays and join in the discussion that follows. The two shows we are visiting this month are Lisa Feriend's Abort the Mission and Arlene Hutton's The Blood of The Lamb.
Oneida rides the rise and fall of the Bible-Communist association that coined the expression “free love” back in the 1800’s, asking: How much more loving, better people can we be?
Join us for selections of two previously unproduced works. We will read and then chat about each selection. One of our plays was this year's Bechdel Resident.
Join The Bechdel Group for our monthly workshop of two new plays. This month we are reading Lauren Wimmer's Mods and Sophie McIntonsh's Eleven Months...
NYC based, The Bechdel Group hosts reading of new work and discussions of works in progress. Our mission: to challenge the accepted portrayal of women and underrepresented groups in scripts. We promote writers writing for women and underrepresented groups and creation of more of these roles in scripts, and we foster an active and engaged community of actors, playwrights, directors, dramaturgs, and theatre lovers.
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10 playwrights. 12 actors. 24 hours to write a play based on a prompt they’re given. Come see 10 minute plays!
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Set in the near future the play, on its surface, is a love story corrupted by society's inhumane intervention designed to control and insure the successful perpetuation of a country's population following a global radiation disaster. The disaster has weakened and polluted the population's genetics, necessitating Public Health Reproduction Programs. These classify those with healthy DNA as viable and the rest as non-viable agents of reproduction. The State has assumed legal control over the duties of its citizenry in regards to procreation. The story revolves around the romance between a non-viable journalist, Ellie (Macy Lanceta), and a human rights activist, Alfred (Joe Gregori), whose main focus is increasing social rights to non-viable people. The pair quickly become involved, bonding over their shared state designation as non-viable for reproduction. However, it is soon discovered that Alfred is viable when he is mandated by the state to mate with Ellie's best friend, Cassandra (Renee Harrison). This leads to the questions of what exactly makes a family, a father, and a lover.
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A reading of the revised edition of Enrique Huili's play Is This A Graveyard? which premiered in 2018 at The Brick Theater (Festival of Lies), directed by Graydon Gund. An absurdist perspective of brotherhood, masculinity, and the romantic brutality of life in desperate times.
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In Atlantic City, the seagulls fly nonstop until they drop dead. They never know when to sleep because the lights never go out. This play uses that image as a metaphor to explore the life of Eugene, a teenage whose environment is so chaotic, upside down, and dysfunctional that normal gets redefined in aberrant ways. His world is so alien to what it means to be human that eventually he becomes confused about what’s day and night, right and wrong, good and evil. A modern-day morality play that asks if opportunity is truly available for everyone - and if not - who then are we to blame?
The Bechdel Group’s Workshop Series is a series of readings and discussions around new work in progress. We invite all actors, directors, dramaturgs, playwrights, and theatre lovers to join us for a festive, friendly, informal community evening of discussion around new work.
Series event: Our Famous Friend, by Kaitlin Mackenzie & Songbird, by Rachel Luann Strayer
Jess, on the brink of turning 25, gathers her friends at a family beach house for a weekend of birthday celebration and much overdue friendship renewal. Too bad mother nature has other plans...
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“Three Sisters: Tulsa, 1921,” a devised re-imagining of Anton Chekhov’s seminal play, is set in the affluent Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa County, Oklahoma, one of the wealthiest black communities in the United States at the time. The play follows Uli, Cora, and Irene before, during, and after the Tulsa Race Riot that engulfed their home and lives in the summer of 1921. “Three Sisters: Tulsa, 1921” focuses on the strength and resilience of those most gravely affected by violence they can do nothing to control: black women. We see the sisters struggle to keep their family and community together, even as it turns to ash around them.
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Those Days Are Over
Written by David Hilder
Directed by Suzanne Agins
Those Days Are Over concerns the MacKillop sisters in the immediate wake of their mother's death. They're not exactly close, these five, and as they tussle with each other they're also tussling with the past. Alliances are formed and broken; detente is reached one moment, dissolved the next. Fundamentally the play looks at what it is to be a Gen X woman now. It's a vigorous collage, a deeply felt comedy, a joyous journey into grief.
Scenic Design by Wesley Cornwell
Featuring Julia Coffey, Tracey Gilbert, Kathryn Markey, Christianna Nelson, Erika Rolfsrud, Julie Evan Smith, Marguerite Stimpson
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Written by Matt Steinberg
Director by Ran Xia
Socially Unacceptable is a dark comedy by playwright Matt Steinberg, that follows three new employees at one of Facebook's global content moderation facilities. Tasked with screening the sites most violent and offensive posts, these eager new workers will try to survive as the psychological effects of the job become increasingly challenging.
Based on the real life reports inside Facebook's troubling working conditions.
Featuring Olivia Rose Barresi, Garrett Lyons, Dennis Kozee, Caroline Banks, Christian Roberson
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Getaway
Written by Jenna Scherer
Directed by Michaela Escarcega
Casper and Penny need a vacation. Like, real bad. So a few days in a cabin in backwoods Vermont seems like the perfect opportunity for them to escape from their problems for awhile. But turns out problems have a way of finding them anyways.
"Getaway" is a play about friendships tested, storms weathered, and what not to do when you realize there's a squirrel living in the wall.
Featuring
Melissa Mahoney
Colin Waitt
Elijah Trichon
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written and directed by Aaron Cooper
Alex, a young black person, has moved to a new city to assist Grace, a middle-aged white woman, with home repairs. What begins as an easy summer job becomes a sadist game of dodging, ducking, and treading. Alex is trapped with a woman who refuses to alter her views of the world while simultaneously attempting to preserve their identity.
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Written and Directed by Aaron Cooper
Alex, a young black person, has moved to a new city to assist Grace, a middle-aged white woman, with home repairs. What begins as an easy summer job becomes a sadist game of dodging, ducking, and treading. Alex is trapped with a woman who refuses to alter her views of the world while simultaneously attempting to preserve their identity.
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FAIR
On an ordinary summer day, the fine folks of Central Minnesota come together to attend the county fair. They will ride the rides. They will eat the food on sticks. They will compete for local glory. Fair is a hilarious collection of short plays about a very particular kind of American anxiety and a world where everything is quaint and folksy...until it isn't.
This will be a reading of a play in progress, and the creatives invite the audience to hang out post-show and share their thoughts.
Written by Colin Waitt
Directed by Kate Moore Heaney
Cast to be announced
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Free reading!
Written by Emily Krause
Directed by Jenna Rossman
Three miserable women named Masha search for the meaning in their meaningless lives in a rapid fire game of anywhere would be better than here. A 21st-century existential crisis; an absurdist anti-ode to Anton Chekhov. How do you find happiness in a world that doesn't give a shit about you?
