A GIRL NAMED DESTINY, THE PLAYDATERS & More Set for MadLab's 2014 Season

After a highly successful 2013, MadLab is coming back in 2014 with more offerings than ever including their 15th Theatre Roulette, their 3rd Young Writer's Short Play Festival, 2 shows by their resident improv troupe FFN, and 4 new full length shows. Details below:

FFN's Date Night January 30-February 15
A Girl Named Destiny March 6-22
The Fifteenth Annual Theatre Roulette May 8--24
FFN's June Show June 6-14
The Third Annual Young Writers Short Play Festival July 11--26
The Playdaters August 29-September 13
Memory Fragments October 16-November 1
Broken Daughters December 4--20

Full Frontal Nudity's Date Night 2014 - Fridays and Saturdays January 31st - February 15th with a special preview on Thursday January 30th.

This Valentine's Day, Full Frontal Nudity is back again to tell more stories of love... YOUR story, your neighbor's story, everybody and anybody's stories of love! How? We don't know. But, as long as there are stories of love to tell, we can tell you we will be making it all up based on your stories. So, once again, it's date night!

A Girl Named Destiny by Rand Higbee, directed by Michelle Batt - Fridays and Saturdays March 7th - March 22nd, with a special preview on Thursday, March 21st

A GIRL NAMED DESTINY is a two person play about love at first sight.

Act One follows Joe who has been so dazzled by a woman he briefly met in passing that he now sees her face in every face he sees. Embarking on a quest to find his mystery girl, Joe eventually encounters the police who, it seems, are also searching for this same woman. Who she is or why the police want her, Joe Doesn't' know, but he eventually does uncover one important fact: Her name is Destiny.

Act Two follows Destiny who is seeking a man she was so dazzled by that she now sees his face in every face she sees. Little does anyone know that Destiny is also the Vigil Ant, a would-be super hero seeking justice in a world as she also seeks her Joe.

Theatre Roulette 2014 - Thursdays, Fridays, + Saturdays, May 8th - May 24st

Theatre roulette, now in its fifteenth year, continues as Central Ohio's longest running shorts festival.

After a record setting Roulette in 2013, MadLab is giving the people what they want. MadLab will only compose one night of programming from works submitted from across the country and the planet, one night of programming will be reserved for a collection of works from a single playwright, and the final night will be reserved for plays written solely by Central Ohio playwrights. Pick one, pick two, collect the whole set!

FFN's June Show -Fridays and Saturdays June 6th- June 14th

Sun. Surf. Sand. FFN? Oh yeah.

The 3rd Annual Young Writer's Short Play Festival - Fridays + Saturdays July 11th - July 26th.

After another fantastic run, MadLab is proud to present the third edition of The Young Writer's Short Play Festival featuring plays written by local high-school students. The YWSPF is a three-week long collection of one-act plays written by Ohio teens and performed by adult actors. Expanding to more schools and to provide more opportunities, this exciting project is bringing the future of performing arts to the stage.

The Playdaters by Neil Haven, directed by Jim Azelvandre - Fridays + Saturdays August 29th - September 13th.

Memory Fragments by Sam Wallin, directed by Andy Batt - Fridays + Saturdays October 17th - November 1st, with a special preview on Thursday, October 16th

In the future, your memories will be recorded in 3D, for playback and interaction at your leisure. Until you're murdered, of course - then your memories will become key pieces of evidence in the investigation into your death. What was the last thing you remember? Did you get a good look at your killer? Is the clue to solve your murder hiding in a tender moment with your lover? In Memory Fragments, Detective Cloud navigates this all-too-plausible vision of the future as he examines the shattered and decaying memories of a young man brutally murdered.

Broken Daughters by Josh Hartwell, directed by Jim Azelvandre - Fridays + Saturdays December 5th- December 20th, with a special preview performance on Thursday, December 4th.

Conrad Douglass is a rugged working-class widower. A Bostonian in Tampa, Florida, and the father of three troubled adult daughters: Penelope is in prison for a violent hate-crime, Cassandra and her partner, Morgan, want desperately to welcome a baby into their lives, and Rene struggles with intellectual and emotional damage from a traumatic brain injury years earlier. When Penelope is assaulted and impregnated by a prison guard, Conrad embraces his opportunity to restore what remains of his deteriorated family.

Confused, overwhelmed, and anxious in wildly unfamiliar terrain, Conrad resorts to whatever might be in his control to heal his children's wounds.

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