Boston Public Works Unveils Second Season

For its second season, Boston Public Works Theater Company will present three original plays by member playwrights of the playwright-centric company. All three productions will be produced at the Boston Center for the Arts in the heart of Boston's cultural and arts-centric South End.

The company's 2015 - 2016 season will present:

Hard and Fast: a love story by Jess Foster
Directed by Dawn M. Simmons
The Stanford Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts
November 20 - December 5, 2015

Citizens of the Empire by Kevin Mullins
Directed by Lindsay Eagle
The Stanford Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts
January 8 - 23, 2016

Unsafe by Jim Dalglish
Directed by Jim Dalglish
Co-produced by Boston Public Works and Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA
March 31 - April 10, 2016 (Cotuit Center for the Arts, Main Stage)
April 14 - 30, 2016 (Boston Center for the Arts, Plaza Theater)

Each playwright produces what they consider to be their most challenging, provocative piece of work. These are the plays each playwright insist have to be seen.

Hard and Fast: a love story, explores the bond between men and their cars. "I grew up around car guys," said Jess Foster. "I wanted to explore that obsessive relationship, and what would happen if that relationship was threatened by other men." The question she poses with her play is, "Is this an infatuation, or do they really fall in love with these machines?" Learn more about Jess Foster at: www.bostonpublicworks.org/jess-foster

Citizens of the Empire, is an epic space opera/drama. "I've always been interested in exploring really big issues," explains Kevin Mullins, whose trilogy, A Southern Victory, will also be produced in Boston in 2016 by Vagabond Theatre. "While there is no singing, I still insist that it's an opera. You have to come to find out why."

Learn more about Kevin at: www.bostonpublicworks.org/kevin-mullins

Unsafe is a psychological thriller inspired by Jim Dalglish's personal experience on September 11, 2001. "I was in downtown New York on the morning of September 11, 2001, setting up for a presentation in a conference room on the 59th floor of the Standard & Poor's building. All of a sudden all hell broke loose," recounts Dalglish. Unsafe explores the impact of that tragedy on one New York family during the year that followed the attack. Learn more about Jim Dalglish at: www.bostonpublicworks.org/jim-dalglish