REC Presents Four Staged Readings In Summer Festival '09, Featuring PRESS CUTTINGS 7/20

Readers' Ensemble Company presents four staged readings at The University of the Streets, 130 East 7th Street, New York City. $8 All Seats (check the website for discounts).

The Readers' Ensemble Company (Justin Flagg & Dana Iannuzzi, producers) opens its doors in downtown Manhattan with "REC Summer Festival '09," a month-long series of fully staged readings of rarely performed works. Each piece depicts part of the Recession Cycle: Greed, Collapse, Revolution, and Rebirth. The company's goal is to reintegrate these forgotten masterpieces into the active dialogue on pop-culture and current events. REC plans to spotlight plays on the edge of obscurity and make them again worthy of production and discussion. A Q & A follows each performance.

First Presentation: Monday, July 20 at 7:00 p.m.: Press Cuttings by George Bernard Shaw, Laura Livingston, dir.

This early 20th Century comedy pits a greedy general and prime minister against women's rights activists, the fear of foreign invasion, the consequences of universal draft, the arms race, and a population that now takes democracy seriously! Mike Durkin heads a cast that includes Michael Hardart, Justin Flagg, Monica Anderson, Laura Valpey, and Billy Dutton. The festival is stage managed by Lorna Ruxton.

The festival continues with The Madwoman of Chaillot, He Who Gets Slapped, and Intimate Apparel.