Potomac Theatre Project's 'After Dark' Series Starts Tonight, 7/7

Potomac Theatre Project opens their "After Dark" series this evening. Described as a "sandbox for young artists",  "After Dark" is a free series of new and experimental work, which will be taking place during their current summer rep season at the Atlantic Stage 2. The "After Dark" series begins tonight, July 7, and runs until July 24. For more information on the company visit http://www.PotomacTheatreProject.org.

COMPLETE 'AFTER DARK' SCHEDULE:

July 7 at 7:30pm
Project Y Theatre Company presents:
"Weddings, Perverts, and Phonecalls"
Modern Love Stories by Lia Romeo
directed by Michole Biancosino

Can a totally jaded person still fall in love and live happily ever after? Join us for a night of surprising and hilarious new plays, freshly penned from the strange and funny mind of one of NYC's hottest young playwrights.

July 10 at 10:30pm
Marzipan Landing
by Willie Orbison

After an unfulfilling year of professional candy-making and a turbulent creative impasse, the two remaining members of New York's most unrecognizable rock band have decided to hold auditions.  But when a musical messiah fails to show, the boys are forced to face the fact that there is only so much one can do with some drums and an electric guitar when trying to change the world.

July 14 7:30pm
a staged reading of
How to Stage a Proper Revolution; A Play in Two Acts
by Alec Strum

Since rejecting the regimented future as a stockbroker manufactured for him by his parents, Lucas Fern has dedicated himself to fighting oppression and freeing minds, especially the one belonging to his only son Adam.  But when opponents new and old enter the struggle over the course of Adam's future, and Adam's own secret desires come to light, Lucas is forced to confront the possibility that his revolution may in fact be more of an institution than any on Wall Street.

July 15 10:30pm
Nobody Listens
by Lucas Kavner
directed by Andrew Zox
In the living room of an apartment, two friends waste away an afternoon.  In the bedroom, however, something is definitely going on...something that bleeds the lines between what we see and what we choose not to.

July 16 at 10:30pm
'A Variety Show' 

Excerpts and fragments of new work. Curated by the winner in the category of "experimental" of the 2007 Washington, DC Fringe Festival. Adult Content.

July 17 and 18 at 10:30pm
Freedom Sea: An Evening of One Acts
by France-Luce Benson
directed by Kate Pines

Three islands devastated by enslavement, embargo and poverty. Three lost souls stranded at sea. One dream. But where is their promised land?

July 20 at 10:30pm
Prototype 373-G
by Benjamin Fainstein
directed by Dan Pruksarnukul

In Polynesian mythology, when people were first created, they were born hatching out of turtle's eggs...maybe they were right.  Prototype 373-G blends humor and magical realism to tell the story of a woman battling extraterrestrials, a series of odd dreams, and the unpredictability of her own heart.

July 21 7:30 pm
The Rose Garden
by Chad Pentlerd
directed by Kate Pines

Katherine is running for President.  Everyone else is running against her.  A staged reading of a new play.

July 22 3:00 pm
For Nina
by Robert Emmet-Lunney

Nina Dalton -- forty-something, a movie star -- has her world shaken by the return of Gar Jackson, who after thirty years away has finally completed a play of staggering beauty, written especially for Nina.

July 23 and 24 at 10:30 pm
Something in a Theatre with MacLeod Andrews and Neil D'Astolfo directed by Maegan Mishico

Two working actors with a passion for bare-bones, honest art have sought out a great text, a great director, and produced a great night of theater.

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