Open-Door Playhouse Debuts BROTHER EMMANUEL'S EXCELLENT IDEA

Open-Door Playhouse will continue to present short plays in podcast form. The Playhouse is presenting a new play, Brother Emmanuel's Excellent Idea, starting March 19, 2025 online at http://opendoorplayhouse.org

This comedic piece is set in a monastery sometime around the year 1455. We find Brother Emmanuel sharing his need for a respite from the tedium and unrelenting monotony of copying sacred scripts by hand, work not fit for God or man. To which his colleague, Brother Xavier, argues the need for the historic documents for the future, charges him with blasphemy for Brother Emmanuel to consider such an idea.

Bernadette Armstrong directs Daamen Krall as Brother Emanuel and Kevin Carr as Brother Xavier.

Rich Rubin is the playwright. A member of the Dramatists Guild, the Portland, Oregon-based writer is exceptionally prolific and the recipient of multiple awards for his work. His previous plays include Picasso in Paris, Caesar's Blood, Chekhov's Premiere, Clinton's Summit, Kafka's Joke, September Twelfth, and many more.

Founded by playwright and filmmaker Bernadette Armstrong, Open-Door Playhouse is a Theater Podcast- like the radio dramas of the 1940s and 1950s. The Playhouse launched on September 15, 2020. At the time, Open-Door Playhouse provided Playwrights, Actors and Directors a creative outlet during the shutdown. Since its inception. Open-Door Playhouse has presented Short and One-Act plays from Playwrights across the country and internationally. In 2021 Open-Door Playhouse received a Communicator Award for Content for the Play Custody and in 2023 the play What's Prison Like was nominated for a Webby Award in the Crime & Justice Category.

Plays are produced by Bernadette Armstrong, Sound Engineer is David Peters, sound effects are provided by Audio Jungle, and music from Karaoke Version. All plays are recorded at The Oak House Studio in Altadena, CA.

There's no paywall at the Open-Door Playhouse site, so you could listen to everything for free. Open-Door Playhouse is a 501c3 non-profit organization, and if you would like to support performances of works by new and emerging playwrights, your donation will be gratefully accepted. Your tax-deductible donations help keep our plays on the Podcast Stage. We strive to bring our listeners thoughtful and surprising one-act plays and ten-minute shorts that showcase insightful and new perspectives of the world we share with others. To listen or to donate (or both), go to https://opendoorplayhouse.org

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