Colt Coeur's Play Hotel reading series will present a staged reading of Max Posner's The Thing About Air Travel on Monday, November 21st at 7pm at the CoCo Studio in NYC. Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt (Fish Eye, Seven Minutes in Heaven), the cast features Teddy Bergman (Peter and the Star-Catcher), Katya Campbell (Fish Eye), Erin Felgar (Broadway's Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Maya Kazan, Kate Roberts (Broadway's Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson ), and Matt Stadelmann (American Sligo, Seven Minutes in Heaven).
Somewhere between Africa and the United States, Marie is stuck on the longest flight of her life. En route to her younger brother's funeral, she dwells on the love she left behind and the family that awaits her return. In this clever voyage through missed connection and loss, siblings bark secrets in indecipherable tones, seat partners swap ideologies and nail polish--and no one is allowed to pee. The Thing About Air Travel is a spirited meditation on grief amidst psychedelic diversions.
Colt Coeur (Fish Eye, Seven Minutes in Heaven) is a NY-based ensemble of actors, designers, playwrights and directors dedicated to making original, story-driven, aggressively visceral theater. Play Hotel is Colt Coeur's ongoing reading series, and their principal arena for developing new work. They are currently developing projects with
Adam Bock,
Bekah Brunstetter, Max Posner, and
Steven Levenson. Previous Play Hotel readings have included: Eli Clarke's Recall, Molly Goforth's Don't Look at Me, and
Alena Smith's Plucker.
Max Posner's plays include The Thing About Air Travel, The War on Safety (published by Playscripts), Current Things, Benevolence and The Famished. His plays have been staged and developed at Actors Theatre of Louisville,
Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Hangar Theatre (Ithaca), Curious Theatre Company (Denver), The Blank (Los Angeles),
Young Playwrights Inc. (NYC), and Production Workshop. Max graduated from Brown University where he studied with
Erik Ehn,
Lisa D'Amour,
Bonnie Metzgar, and
Paula Vogel. Max is the recipient of the Weston Award in Playwriting, and the 2011 Heideman Award from Actors Theatre of Louisville. He is a member of Interstate 73 (P73). He has led playwriting workshops with high schoolers in Nebraska, inmates in Rhode Island, and youth in Kenya's Kibera slum. He was born and raised in Denver and lives in Brooklyn.
The reading is free however seating is limited. RSVP to CCPlayHotel@gmail.com.
The CoCo Studio is located at 20 Jay Street, Suite M05, DUMBO, Brooklyn 11201. For more information go to: www.coltcoeur.org.
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