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Rattlestick Playwrights Theater continues to celebrate its 15th Anniversary season and will present the final two play readings with "Spring Evening Reading Series" beginning tonight, Tuesday, May 18th at the Rattlestick Theatre (224 Waverly Place - off Seventh Avenue South between West 11th & Perry Streets). Doors will open at 6:30pm. The readings are free. For reservations, please email literary@rattlestick.org.
The readings are as follows:Tuesday, May 18th 2010 @ 7pmYOSEMITE Written by Daniel Talbott Directed by Pedro Pascal
Siblings Ruby, Jake, and Jer spend their Saturday in the snow-covered woods behind the trailer park where they live in the Sierra Nevada foothills. They search for a way to escape or be rescued from their lives as they attempt to bury their latest casualty, and the snow continues to fall as the world sinks in on them.
Sunday, May 23rd 2010 @ 7pmTHE TRUTH WILL OUT Written by Jordan Seavey Directed by Josh HechtA celebrity journalist is covering the one-year anniversary of the hate-motivated murder of a 15 year- old boy (inspired by the real-life story of a boy murdered for propositioning a classmate). As their two stories intertwine, questions arise about identity, media, love, hate, and the narratives that we create for ourselves to keep our true natures hidden.
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (Producer) is a multi award-winning company, producing over forty-six world premieres in the past fifteen seasons. The company received the 2007 Ross Wetzsteon Memorial OBIE Award for its work developing new and innovative plays. Previous productions include Adam Rapp's American Sligo, Sheila Callaghan's That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play, Jessica Dickey's The Amish Project, Stephen Belber's Geometry of Fire, Daniel Talbott's Slipping, Lucy Thurber's Killers and Other Family, the off-Broadway GLAAD Award-nominated hit The Last Sunday in June and Craig Wright's Lady, which received a Drama Desk and Drama League Award nomination for Outstanding Play of 2008.www.rattlestick.org