Florida Rep to Stage THE LUCKIEST PEOPLE and DARK DAMOCLOID Readings

Florida Repertory Theatre is pleased to announce two new play readings scheduled for Sunday, March 27th in the ArtStage Studio Theatre as part of a Florida Play Reading Tour sponsored by the National New Play Network's Collaboration Fund.

The two plays "The Luckiest People" by Meridith Firedman and "Dark Damocloid" by Thomas Gibbons have enjoyed three week's worth of development and were seen earlier in March in Orlando and Sarasota, and will be onstage at Florida Rep on Easter Sunday as a special event for donors, patrons, and theatre professionals. Performances are at 2PM and 5PM, and both readings will include a talk-back with the cast and playwright.

The Florida New Play Reading Tour is a shared festival of staged readings of two new plays that gives the playwrights three opportunities to hear their plays in front of various audiences in a compressed two-week time frame and make real-time developmental changes propelling their plays forward. The project-graciously underwritten by the National New Play Network-will encourage the mingling of audiences and artists who wouldn't otherwise have access to each other.

Meridith Friedman's "The Luckiest People" is an intriguing dark comedy about the power of the father-son bond. What is our responsibility to our parents when they need us? In the days following his mother's funeral, Richard is forced to grapple with that question. His father Oscar's growing suspicions over the circumstances of his wife's death lead him to make a startling accusation against his son. The Luckiest People explores the great dichotomy of the father-son bond: a relationship of profound awe and unparalleled fear.

Friedman's play, "The Firestorm" was read as part of Florida Rep's 2015 PlayLab Festival of new works last may.

Thomas Gibbon's play, "Dark Damocloid" asks how we confront the end of everything we know and cherish. As a famous philosopher rehearses an important speech for his wife and daughter about of how humanity might face its own extinction, revelations about his own failures as a husband and father emerge. Mysterious, funny, romantic, bleak, and hopeful, this intelligent and poignant new play pits humanity's darkest urgency against our personal immediacy.

The Florida New Play Reading Tour is sponsored by the National New Play Network (www.nnpn.org), the country's alliance of nonprofit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays. The organization strives to pioneer, implement, and disseminate ideas and programs that revolutionize the way theaters collaborate to support new plays and playwrights.

Priced at just $10, tickets are now on sale through the box office at 239-332-4488 and online at www.floridarep.org.

Florida Repertory Theatre performs in the Historic Arcade Theatre and the ArtStage Studio Theatre on Bay St. between Jackson & Hendry with limited free parking in the Fort Myers River District. Visit Florida Rep online at FloridaRep.org, and by following the company on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube.

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