The Baltimore Playwrights Festival Announces Reading Marathon 12/18
By: Gabrielle Sierra Dec. 16, 2010
The Baltimore Playwrights Festival (www.baltplayfest.com) announces our second public reading "Marathon" of the 30th season on 18 December at the Heather Ridge Condo Clubhouse, 6201 Heather Ridge Drive, Baltimore, MD 21209 (Google Maps Link). Beginning at 11:00 a.m. plays to be read are: You Don't Get a Vote, by Richard Madzel , followed by A Good Brain is Hard to Find, by Rebecca Wyrick at 1:00 p.m., and Forty Minutes of Death, by Terry Kenney at 3:00 p.m. After each reading there will be a discussion of the script with the playwright, director and actors. The event is free, and the general public is encouraged to attend.
You Don't Get a Vote, by Rich Madzel, is a not-always-funny-comedy about what happens when a young inter-racial couple living together invite their parents over for dinner to meet their mate for the first time. We see a father/son relationship where the son can never please the father, and a daughter who has completely wrapped her daddy around her little finger, or so she thinks.
In A Good Brain is Hard to Find, by Rebecca Wyrick, a Police Inspector interrogates Hannah West, a young scientist obsessed with Frankenstein, on the nature of a murder case. It is a story of what happens when loyalty, love and loneliness clash with science and violence in a futuristic society governed by strict rules and regulations. Forty Minutes of Death, by Terry Kenney, is a collection of four 10-minute plays associated by the theme of death. In Tontine, two representatives of a reality show recruit a recently diagnosed cancer patient. Checkpoint: Miami finds TSA agents protecting the mainland from Swine Flu on a limited budget. Three former punk rockers meet at a funeral in Pistol in the Middle. And on An Unusually Weird Night, a bartender has an after-hours meeting with his former lover and another.The Baltimore Playwrights Festival has presented 266 scripts by 158 playwrights, produced by 25 different companies, over the past 29 Years. Further information can be found at www.baltplayfest.com .
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