The New Theatre Project announces The Mix New Reading Series for January

The New Theatre Project is pleased to announce the continuation of its very successful series of original play readings through the end of January. The readings are held at and sponsored by Mix of Ypsilanti, 130 W. Michigan Ave. Admission is decided by the roll of a single die, ranging from $1-$6. Members of The New Theatre Project receive free admission. Below is the listing of all
readings remaining in the series.

Monday, January 3 at 8 pm

Noh CEby GaiLee Walker Wells
An exploration of man's inability to grow as beautiful, artistic, questioning
beings and evolve past the politics and religions that destroy societies as well
as the greed and corruption that destroy individuals. Noh CE takes place at the
source of the waters where greatness was born during centuries past and where
justice is demanding.

Monday, January 10 at 8 pm

Girls Like Usby Sarah Wilder
Two suburban teenage girls battle with carrying out a violent act to prove a
socio-political point. A shocking portrait of the effects of education, racial &
gender expectations, media portrayals and statistical manipulations.

Monday, January 17 at 8 pm

Faithby James McLindon
All that Simon, a young boy, wants for Christmas is the stigmata, and to be
God's prophet, and if prayer and sacrifice have anything to do with it, Simon is
well on his way. Theresa, his mother, prefers that he go to the mall and let
Walmart tell him what he wants for Christmas. Simon does visit the mall, or
more exactly, the Walmart's parking lot as it is the closest approximation to a
desert that he can find in his snowswept upstate New York home to wander in.
And it came to pass that, there, in the parking lot, Simon saw the Harbinger, a
visitor to him from the heavens and, no doubt, God's emissary to him and earth,
hovering just above the halogen glow of the parking lot lights. His prayers have
been answered.

Or have they?

Monday, January 24 at 8 pm

Irisby Kevin Kautzman
Iris believes it's her wedding day and couldn't be happier, but in reality her
father has conspired to sacrifice her to appease his demanding soldiery, well
meaning men who will only go to war upon seeing their leader offer up that which
he holds dearest. Based on Charles Mee's Iphigenia 2.0, itself based on
Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis, Iris examines the high price of an unjust war and
questions our assumptions about the nature of marriage, leadership, and human
history itself.

Monday, January 31 at 8 pm

Unlocking Desireby Barbara Neri
At first blush Unlocking Desire seems to imagine Tennessee Williams' tragic
heroine Blanche DuBois after A Streetcar Named Desire, in an institution she
could have been taken to. But all is not as it seems.

For more information visit www.thenewtheatreproject.org.

 

To post a comment, you must register and login.