TNTP Releases Full Lineup for the Summer New Work Series

The New Theatre Project is pleased to announce the full lineup for its first New Work Series featuring readings and staged readings of original work. Readings are an essential part of any plays development on its journey to the stage and the New Work Series provides opportunities for playwrights to see their work imagined and responded to in this process.

All admission to the New Work Series is determined by the roll of two dice. Pay-what-you-throw! Readings will be followed by talkbacks with the playwright, actors, directors, and artistic director. All begin at 8 pm!

Monday, August 29
Fugue
By Audra Lord
Directed by Luna Alexander
Featuring Ben Berg, Maxim Hunt, Keith Paul Medelis, Linda Rabin Hammell, and
Jamie Weeder

A staged reading of the most recent draft of a play we'll will produce in December. Don't miss your first glimpse at this beautiful show.

In a bleak, institutional space, James, Julie, Tina and Princess Stephanie recover from a shared tragic event that resulted in the complete loss of their memories. Fugue follows their attempts to remember, to forget, and to piece together their shared and individual identities. Is it better to leave the past behind? Or to remember, no matter what the cost?

Tuesday, August 30
If You Start a Fire [Be Prepared to Burn]
By Kevin Kautzman
Directed by Evan Mann
Featuring Pete Podolski and Elise Randall

Lucy and Chris are your typical working Americans in their twenties struggling to get through the Great Recession. They hate their jobs like most everybody else, but they need the insurance, and at least they have each other. Right?

When Chris loses his job for punching a colleague in the face, he convinces Lucy they should launch a boutique sex website and sell the idea of Lucy as an all-American girl next door, somehow both pure and hedonistic at the same time...

If You Start a Fire [Be Prepared to Burn] looks at our brand-spanking-new techno-capitalist culture and asks if sex has changed, are we still really human, and does it even matter if everything's for sale?

Wednesday, August 31
in a word
By Lauren D. Yee
Directed by Kate Mendeloff
Featuring Evan Mann, Sean Paraventi, and Eva Rosenwald

Two years have passed since Fiona's eight-year-old son mysteriously vanished. As
Fiona goes back over the events she remembers leading up to that fateful day, logic buckles and language breaks. Will she uncover the truth and what happens if she does? A lyrical, absurdist journey on how to get over, get around, get through what haunts you.

Thursday, September 1
Bartleby
By Brooklyn Demetrie
Directed by Jamie Weeder
Featuring Jane Bruce, Joseph Fournier, Analea Lessenberry, James Michael Morgan,
and Russ Schwartz

Adapted from the short story by Herman Melville. Bartleby is a model employee.
Others in the office are put off by his quiet eccentricities and machine-like perfection. The Boss, however, is very pleased with Bartleby's work-that is, until the day Bartleby decides that he will do no more work because he would "prefer not to". However, even after being fired, he refuses to budge from the office, preferring instead to stand and stare at the wall of his cubicle. Bartleby's will to do nothing persists ad absurdum, culminating in death by starvation because he preferred not to eat.