A drama based on a story by William Faulkner, a musical comedy with a score by a pop music legend and a holiday show with a twist on a Dickens' classic will be presented as concert readings as part of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Southern Writers' Project Festival of New Plays, May 13-15, 2011. The readings will be available to the public over the festival weekend.
Tickets for each concert reading are $10. Special packages that include a variety of meals, activities, hotel accommodations and interaction with the artists are also available. For information contact the ASF box office at 800.841.4273 or visit on line at www.asf.net. ASF is located at 1 Festival Drive in Montgomery's beautiful Blount Cultural Park."Each one of the plays picked for development during the festival are artistically rich and highly entertaining," said SWP director Nancy Rominger. "Twenty Seven, Doubletime and Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol are true candidates for a world premiere production at ASF and subsequent productions at other regional theatres."Twenty Seven, based on William Faulkner's Old Man will be performed on May 13 at 3:30 p.m. Adapted by Edward Morgan, Twenty Seven tells the story of an inmate who is entrusted to pilot a small raft to search for victims during a massive Mississippi River flood. When he finds a young pregnant woman clinging perilously to a tree, he saves her. But man and nature conspire against the pair to make the following seven weeks a harrowing adventure on the Big Muddy.SWP is endowed by an Anonymous donor. Alabama Shakespeare Festival is a participant in the New Generation Program, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for the American theatre. Blood Divided is a recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New American Plays award.
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