Annual SoLow Festival Kicks Off 6/16

SoLow Festival is an annual event for solo performance held in Philadelphia, PA with the mission of inspiring individuals to make and produce art that would otherwise never be created. During the first weekend of the festival (June 16 - 19), new work by six SoLow artists will be presented at Plays and Players Theater (1714 Delancey St.) in the venue's Skinner Studio on the 3rd Floor. This incredible roster of Philadelphia theatre artists includes Chris Davis, Bradley Wrenn, Corinna Burns, Terry Brennan, Nicole Quenelle, and James Haro. All performances are Pay What You Can with suggested donations of $5 or more. Please visit solowfest.com for more details, showtimes, and to see the full SoLow Fest line up!

Chris Davis: Chinchilla Coats

Chris Davis is a f-ing machine! Covering such topics as: the true cost of a chinchilla coat, animal cruelty, depression, family pound stores, one-liners and the excruciating anxiety of living in our modern age. In Chinchilla Coat, up-and-coming American stand-up Chris Davis explores entirely new comedic terrain, and illuminates life's turmoils with his dry observations. A world-premiere stand-up show that will be performed in Edinburgh Fringe 2016. See it before Scotland does!! Reserve: chinchillacoats.brownpapertickets.com

Cockatrice - A Pupal Piece in Progress Presentation

by Bradley Wrenn

Cockatrice is a cruel tale fueled by imagination. It makes you feel special, while drawing you deeper and deeper into the bowels of a dank and musty dungeon. The piece demands that you believe in a world that is both there and not there. Bradley Wrenn's goal is to lose total control of the audience, have them kill him and toss his body on banks of the Ganges.

Bind: An In-Progress Showing

by Corinna Burns

In 1993, Corinna dropped out of college and moved into the city of Philadelphia. Then she went a little wild, and took an unusual job. This is the story of that time. This show is not family friendly.

School Play

by Jack Tamburi & Terry Brennan

School Play is a comic adventure set in the American educational system featuring an eager student battling his inability to sit still, his hyper-enthusiasm for show and tell and his love for "non-academic" subjects. Terry Brennan (Tribe of Fools) uses comedy, acrobatics and hand-balancing to tell a silly and heartwarming story of a kid who just wants to fit in.

REFRESHMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED

by Nicole Quenelle

How do we measure time? What is contained in a moment? And just what the heck are we waiting for, anyway?

Refreshments Will Be Provided casts the audience as the employees of Building 14, with intrepid call center worker JoAnn Merriweather leading them in a time management seminar that is at turns both serious corporate meeting and existential comedy. The show finds JoAnn examining her calendar and personal routine and exchanging time management tips with the audience, with interruptions for poetry readings, coffee cake, co- worker counseling, and a possible appearance by a figure from Building 14's mysterious past. Note: This show includes both audience participation and gluten (both optional). For more info and tickets: nicolequenelle.com

What It Looks Like (Or, Something Resembling...)

by James Haro

Jay and Stella have eloped - but must stomach a seventy-two hour waiting period before they can retrieve their marriage license. After a sleepless night, Garcin becomes increasingly convinced that a deal she made with a stranger might cost her a lot more than she had ever intended. What It Looks Like (Or, Something Resembling...) is a short one-person play which draws heavy inspiration from the classic play No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre, the music of Bruce Springsteen, and the board game Monopoly. Written/Directed by James Haro, Performed by Meryl Sands, Co-produced by Seven Engines, with Additional Design by Emily Schuman. For reservations please email: WILLSoLowTix@gmail.com (Admission includes a Haro-Family Style Chicken or Vegan Taco)

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