Centenary Stage Company's Women Playwright Series to Feature PERILS OF HUMAN DISCOURSE

Dario Fo meets Woody Allen in this comedy about two young romantics navigating their way through love, language and work at the "Institute of Right Things to Say" in Sonya Sobieski's new play, "The Perils of Human Discourse", which will be presented in the Centenary Stage Company's Women Playwright Series on Wednesday, April 20th at 7:30 PM in the Lackland Center. "Perils" will be directed by Mikaela Kafka.

Playwright Sonya Sobieski is an affiliated artist with NYC's Obie Award-winning New Georges, who commissioned and produced her Commedia dell Smartass, an alternative take on the archetypes of high school, subsequently performed by Serious Play! in Northampton, MA and published by Indie Theatre Now. Sobieski latest work (in development) is Love Hate Potion No. 9 , a time-jumping theatrical thriller investigating self-obsession and female friendship, (which will be staged at The Pulp Stage, Portland, OR), and The Unfortunate Squirrel , an existential comic musical. Sobieski's other one-acts and one-act musicals have been produced in NY by EBE Ensemble, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Vital Theatre, and Prospect Theater. She has been published in Smith & Kraus's The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2013. Sobieski holds a BA from Smith College, and an MFA from Brooklyn College.

The CSC Women Playwrights Series celebrates its 25th year in 2016, having featured the work of more than 60 emerging playwrights in the developmental WPS process, and having taken 15 plays to full production from the series, including "The English Bride" by Lucile Lichtblau, which transferred from CSC to New York City in 2013. The program offers playwrights the opportunity to work with professional actors and directors in a workshop rehearsal process, and to hear their work in front of a live audience - a critical part of the development process. Lively talk-backs with the playwright and cast follow each presentation, and one play is selected each year as the winner of the Susan Glaspell Award, which promises a full production in the main-stage season at CSC.

Admission to the WPS is by donation and reservations are requested. For information and reservations, call the CSC box office at 908 979 0900, or log on to www.centenarystageco.org.

The WPS receives support from the Zonta Club of Morristown, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the NJ State Council on the Arts, The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation and season sponsor Heath Village.

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