Playwrights Foundation Kicks Off February Rough Readings

Playwrights Foundation and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford present the February Rough Readings.

All readings will be performed at ROBLE HALL in Stanford University, at the CUSTOM MADE THEATRE, 533 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94102. For information visit us at www.playwrightsfoundation.org.

Rough Readings bring playwrights and theatergoers together in an intimate setting to showcase work that is still at a very early stage of development, giving audiences a rare opportunity to engage directly with the artistic process of bringing a play to life. The Rough Reading Series is presented in partnership with the National Center for New Plays at Stanford, a producing partner of the National New Play Network, helping to foster a thriving relationship between Stanford University and the greater San Francisco theater scene.

The Readings are open to the public and are always pay-what-you-can. Monday and Sunday readings take place at Roble Hall on the Stanford University campus, and Tuesday and Saturday readings are held at Custom Made Theatre in San Francisco.

The plays and playwrights are:

Fidelis by Christina Gorman Monday,
February 1 - 7:30pm at Stanford
Tuesday, February 2 - 2:00pm at Custom Made Theatre

1966. Twenty-year old Nick Edwards enters the Marine Corps with the barest notion of who he is or what he's worth. The Corps train him, shape him, and then sends him to Vietnam. Only when Nick returns stateside does he meet his most dangerous foe: The Marine Corps itself. When loyalty and honor are rewarded with denial and silence, what is the immense toll it takes on a man's soul?

Christina Gorman's plays have been produced and/or developed at The Public Theater, American Blues Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Summer Play Festival (NYC), Hangar Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, Prospect Theatre Company, Samuel French Short Play Festival, New Harmony Project, Theatre Artists Studio, Stageworks/Hudson, Westport Country Playhouse, Lark Play Development Center, Stella Adler Studios, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Luna Stage, |the claque|, HotINK International Festival, and the New York
International Fringe Festival.

The Most Dangerous Highway in the World by Kevin Artigue
Sunday, February 20 - 5:00pm at Custom Made Theatre
Monday, February 21 - 7:30pm at Stanford

A fearless eight-year old businessman makes his living selling fish and directing traffic with a coke bottle on the highway connecting Jalalabad to Kabul, Afghanistan. Soldiers, generals and ghosts are no match for this little fighter with a knack for surviving the toughest challenges.

Kevin Artigue is a playwright and filmmaker. He is a current member of the Public Theater's 2014-2015 Emerging Writers Group. His play THE MOST DANGEROUS HIGHWAY IN THE WORLD was featured at the National New Play Network's 2014 National Showcase of New Plays. The play will premiere with Golden Thread as part of their 2015-2016 season. His plays have been performed and developed with Theatre of NOTE, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Yale Cabaret, Iowa New Play Festival, Golden Thread, and the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, where he was a Core Apprentice. A graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Kevin was awarded a Provost's Visiting Writer Fellowship at the University of Iowa, where he taught creative writing.

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