Brimmer Street Theatre Company Sets Public Staged Readings for April
As part of its 2015 Breaking Ground play development program, Brimmer Street Theatre Company has announced public staged readings of two new plays. Raw Cut by Christian Durso will be presented on Friday, April 3 at 8pm and Saturday, April 4 at 2pm and And Then They Fell by Tira Palmquist will be presented on Friday, April 10 at 8pm and Saturday, April 11 at 2pm. All presentations will be at the Lyric-Hyperion Theatre & Café in Silver Lake. Admission is free and no reservations are required. Following each reading, audiences will be invited to engage in brief discussions with the playwrights and participating artists.
Breaking Ground is Brimmer Street Theatre Company's newest initiative dedicated to collaborative new play development. Over the course of the seven-week project, BSTC's ensemble works with local playwrights to move drafts of original plays to finalized scripts through the discovery and collaboration of an abbreviated rehearsal process, design consultation, and finally a staged reading. Raw Cut and And Then They Fell were chosen by the BSTC ensemble from dozens of submissions.
In Christian Durso's Raw Cut, the bitter ex-boyfriend of a fast-rising pop star signs on to do a TMZ-style smear story on her the night before the release of her first album. The ex-boyfriend is paid a visit by the pop star's shark of a manager who wants him to drop the story, making him an offer he can't refuse. Directed by David Jette, the reading will feature (in alphabetical order) Amy K. Harmon, Emilia Richeson, and Joseph L. Roberts.
Tira Palmquist's And Then They Fell is a poignant drama. Jordan Matthews would be fine if her mother could hold down a decent job, or if her mother hadn't been arrested on another DUI, or if her mother's boyfriend wasn't a hateful monster. But things aren't fine and Jordan's life is falling apart. The adults in her life are either impotent or disinterested, and her only solace comes from out of the blue. Directed by Amy K. Harmon, the reading will feature (in alphabetical order) Sasha Compere, Faith Imafodon, Tyler Jenich, Connor Kelly-Eiding, and Ian Madeira Sollenberger.
Audience members who would like to read either play in advance may email jbyrd@brimmerstreet.org for scripts.
Brimmer Street Theatre Company is a non-profit ensemble theatre that creates and produces new works of theatre in order to cultivate artists and engage audiences in Los Angeles. By working from a select core of talented artists, BSTC aims to produce a unique brand of American theatre that is rooted in a common experience and driven by their commitment to building better theatre that is challenging, extraordinary, and inspiring.
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