The Ocean All Around Us, a new play by David Lavine, will be given a staged reading by New York Theatre Workshop on Monday, March 7 at 3pm as part of its Mondays@3 development program. Ted Sod directs.
The Ocean All Around Us is a powerful, haunting play that unfolds entirely in reverse. After a young artist's paintings are destroyed in a studio fire, he struggles to piece together a chain of life-changing events. His older brother, a psychiatrist, tends to him while facing his own transgressions from years past.The play was a recent Finalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and was given a staged reading at Abingdon Theatre Company in September as part of its First Reading series.David Lavine has had productions in New York and regionally (CA, NJ, PA, OH, FL), including Emerging Artists, New Jersey Rep, Fleetwood Stage, Shetler Studio, and both the New York and Columbus Fringe Festivals. Plays and selections have also been re ad at Naked Angels and Ensemble Studio Theatre. Another play, Poking Kitty Purple, was an O'Neill Finalist, and Smugglers Three earned The Other Paper's Heidi Award for Best Original Short. Publication includes "4 Plays by David Lavine," Original Works, and monologues in "The Ultimate Audition Book," Smith and Kraus.Videos