The 2010 New Play Festival Hatches Tonight at Centre Stage

Centre Stage proudly unveils its 2010 New Play Festival tonight, featuring four finalists selected from submissions of over 200 works. Beginning this evening, Monday, October 18th through Friday, October 22nd, a different play will be presented every night as a staged reading that is free and open to the public. Monday - Thursday, performances will begin at 7:00 p.m. and will be followed by an in-depth discussion of the work (audience feedback is encouraged after each reading), led by festival chairman, Dr. Brian Haimbach and playwright-in-residence, Deborah Brevoort.

Friday, October 22 at 7:00 p.m., playwright-in-residence, Deborah Brevoort will discuss playwriting and what it means to script development when a new script is performed as a staged reading. Then at 7:30 a staged reading of her play The Poetry of Pizza will be presented, followed by a reception.

Tonight's staged reading will be Dreams of Angels by Robert E. Jamison, beginning at 7:00 p.m.

Set against the backdrop of the turbulent 1960's, a young radical journeys down the road of self discovery amidst the Vietnam War, hippie culture, and the sexual revolution.

A resident of South Carolina for the past thirty-four years, Robert E. Jamison has always had a life-long interest in the arts. Several of MR. Jamison's plays have had readings in the Upstate, including Turkeys as part of the 2008 Cultural Arts Series at Tri-County Technical College, and the production of several ten-minute plays by the Lost Playwrights of NC. MR. Jamison now has more time to devote to playwriting since he gratefully retired as a professor of discrete mathematics from Clemson University.

For more information about the 2010 New Play Festival or about Centre Stage, visit our website at www.centrestage.org.

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