OCPA Presents DIRECTING HEDDA at The Chance Theater

The Orange County Playwrights Alliance (OCPA) partners with Anaheim's Chance Theater on June 24 for a staged reading of Lynn Wells Nelson's comedy Directing Hedda. This new full-length play kicks off the 2017 OCPA Presents... series of staged readings of longer works from OC dramatists. Katie Chidester directs.

The Play
The Swan's Song Theatre is about to close its doors if it can't produce a successful play. Each of the artistic directors have hired a separate director, independent of each other, to direct Hedda Gabler. The newly hired directors have conflicting styles - one is a classicist, the other a revisionist - and each of these two women have issues of their own. Most of the actors cast have fled to other productions except for the two female leads. Can the show go on?

The Playwright
Lynn Wells Nelson is an actress, playwright, director, author of the textbook The Articulate Voice, and Saddleback College professor emeritus. Directing Hedda was a finalist for the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum's Botanicum Seedlings new play development series in 2016.

The Venue
Dedicated in 2014, the Bette Aitken theater arts Center is the creative home to the Chance Theater. The company is dedicated to the creation of exciting theatrical experiences, taking artistic risks, and collaborating with gifted artists on passionate and provocative plays and musicals in order to tell bold, distinctive and innovative stories. The Chance Theater's mission is to contribute to a more compassionate, connected, and creative Orange County. See its upcoming events at chancetheater.com.

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