Adam Rapp will workshop his new play Essential Self-Defense at the Cape Cod Theatre Project in Falmouth, Massachusetts on July 6th, 7th and 8th; the staged reading will be performed at the Falmouth Academy private school.
According to CCTP's website, Rapp--whose
Red Light Winter was critically lauded both in
Chicago and in its current off-Broadway run--will also direct the reading, for which casting has yet to be announced. "Yul Carrol makes his living by being a human punching bag for a
women's self-defense class. He falls in love with the woman who injures
him, and then things get strange," state press notes.
"The Cape Cod Theatre Project brings together
playwrights of new American plays with professional directors and actors
- often straight from Broadway - for staged readings." Founded by actors Andrew Polk and
Jim Bracchitta 12 years ago, CCTP has become a noted springboard for in-development plays. Among the plays developed at CCTP to go on to commercial New York runs are
John Cariani's
Almost, Maine, Julia Cho's
BFE, and
Paula Vogel's
The Minneola Twins.Rapp's other plays include
Nocturne, Stone Cold Dead Serious and
Blackbird. Red Light Winter, a sexually-charged drama, is currently running at the Barrow Street Theatre.
Winter Passing, an independent film about a reclusive writer and his family starring
Ed Harris, Zooey Deschanel and
Will Ferrell, recently marked Rapp's film debut as a screenwriter and director.
For more information, visit
www.capecodtheatreproject.org.
