LAByrinth Theatre Comoany Announces Barn Reading Series

LAByrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O'Donnell, Yul Vázquez and Managing Director, Danny Feldman), Off-Broadway's home of exhilarating and incendiary theater, has announced the initial slate of readings for its 12th Annual Barn Series, a year-long festival of free staged readings highlighting 13 new plays.

The critical second step in LAByrinth's unique play development process, the Barn Series focuses on the special relationship between artist and audience by giving writers the opportunity to refine their work through multiple readings in front of diverse audiences, and by giving those audiences a rare chance to actively participate in the creation of new theater. Plays featured at the Barn Series have gone onto stages across the city, the country, and the world, all carrying the distinct imprint of the Barn Series audiences that helped them take shape at their most raw and dynamic incarnations.

The Barn Series will begin Sunday, September 18th and continue throughout LAByrinth's 2011/12 Season at the Bank Street Theater (155 Bank Street). All are welcome. Admission is free. Advanced reservations can be made only by LABpass Members, though seating will be on first-come, first-served basis for the general public. Patrons are advised to arrive at the theater at least one half-hour before each reading is scheduled to begin.

The schedule of the first three plays of the series is listed below:

BARN SERIES SCHEDULE

The Power of Duff
By Stephen Belber
Directed by Cat Miller

The Power of Duff tells the story of Charlie Duff, a local newscaster in Rochester, New York, who casually prays for his recently deceased father one night on air -- and creates a hailstorm of controversy, publicity, good will and great confusion. It's Rick Warren meets Warren Beatty meets Warren Buffett meets Jimmy Buffett. But it's really just Charlie Duff.

September 18 - 19, 2011

Fuente Ovejuna: A Disloyal Adaptation
By Cusi Cram
Directed by Suzanne Agins
From the play by Lope De Vega

Love. Power. Revolt. Set in 1930's Madrid, a sly retelling of Lope De Vega's classic tragicomedy that examines the infinite power of love to overcome great tyranny.

September 22 & 29, 2011

Busted
By Florencia Lozano
Directed by Jill DeArmon

A comedy about loneliness. And friendship.

November 6 - 7, 2011

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