Pipeline Theatre Sets 2016 Bonfire Series

This July, Pipeline Theatre Company presents readings of seven new plays written by its PlayLab Class of 2016 in this year's Bonfire Series at South Oxford Space in Brooklyn (138 S. Oxford St., Brooklyn). This year's PlayLab includes: Matthew Barbot, Jen Browne, Gina Femia, Reina Hardy, Jacob Marx Rice, Callan Stout, and Amy E. Witting. Performances will be July 14-24th at 7:30PM. Tickets are available for purchase online at www.pipelinetheatre.org/tickets by a suggested donation of $10.

The Bonfire Series, Pipeline's annual play reading festival, is the culminating event of the PlayLab playwrights' group. Led by Pipeline's Artistic Development Manager, Colby Day*, the PlayLab serves as a workshop for the playwrights to build new plays with constructive feedback from fellow writers, directors, and the artistic staff of Pipeline. PlayLab playwrights meet monthly over the course of a year and attend Pipeline's annual retreat in May.

Through the PlayLab, Pipeline Theatre Company endeavors to support playwrights in turning their biggest wildest ideas into finished scripts. This year's series features a whole lot of adventure, a secret princess, the oldest couple in the world, a magical baby, mummification, puppets, a mermaid, travel through time and space, and of course, Humpty Dumpty.

Each reading in the Bonfire Series will showcase one of the full-length plays developed in the PlayLab Class of 2016. The directors are Sash Bischoff, Jaki Bradley, Nelson Eusebio, Anais Koivisto, Erin Ortman, Tasha Gordon Solomon, and Anna Strasser.

*Member of the Pipeline Ensemble

PLAYS IN THE 2016 BONFIRE SERIES:

PRINCESS CLARA OF LOISAIDA
by Matt Barbot | directed by Nelson Eusebio
Thursday, July 14, 7:30PM

When José finds out the tales he's been telling his little sister Clara might be true - that she's really a princess from a distant land - he is forced to fight a magical battle for her destiny.

ELEVEN SHADES OF BLUE
by Amy E. Witting | directed by Sash Bischoff
Friday, July 15, 7:30PM

Four women in search of a missing piece of themselves meet on the Coney Island boardwalk. Through their unlikely adventures, each learns to let go of her past and move forward alone, together.

CRACKS
by Jacob Marx Rice | directed by Anna Strasser
Saturday, July 16, 7:30PM

Nicole is trying to unboil an egg. Kat is trying to stop Global Warming. When romance sparks between the two, Nicole must confront the explosive ending of her last relationship, with the help of a giant egg named Humpty Dumpty.

HAGS, MOPES, & THE END OF ALL EXISTANCE
by Jen Browne | directed by Tasha Gordon Solomon
Thursday, July 21, 7:30PM

Hags and Mopes are the oldest couple in the world and they've had enough, so maybe it's not so bad the snow keeps coming, the cow and the goat have retired, and a comet is heading straight for them. What else can go wrong before death comes a barkin'?

GIRL BECOMES BONE
by Callan Stout | directed by Jaki Bradley
Friday, July 22, 7:30PM

It's Quadrant 23's turn to make the ultimate act of Faith. Someone must go to Earth and seek a path to Unity with the Void while self-mummifying. Three friends decide if their future is growing old or venturing into the stars. And one of them goes.

THE MERMAID PARADE
by Gina Femia | directed by Erin Ortman
Saturday, July 23, 7:30PM

Biron has been deployed to Iraq and Islande is stuck in Coney Island. A fable of a mermaid connects them as they confront personal horrors and find one another and themselves during a time of war.

THE PUPPET SHOW
by Reina Hardy | directed by Anais Koivisto
Sunday, July 24, 7:30PM

Sam is a puppeteer from a rough background. Imogen is an international humanitarian/producer with a secret. Together, they're going to save the world through children's television- or are they?