A model of what regional theater can and should be...

-The Wall Street Journal
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Three international play readings performed over three back-to-back weekends in an informal setting; a professional cast will perform the play seated at music stands, with stage directions read, allowing the audience's imaginations to create the world of the play. Ticket holders will be given the opportunity to sit in on the creative process at several free open rehearsals for each play. Details on rehearsal dates, times, and how to reserve your place at these unique behind-the-scenes events will be announced after the first of the year.

SOLD OUT! Please check with the Box Office closer to performance dates to see if tickets have become available.

 

  • April 8–11, 2010
    East of Berlin
    By Hannah Moscovitch
    When a young, German-born Argentinean discovers the truth about his expatriate father, he sets off for his ancestral homeland in a journey of painful self-discovery. This new play, by an acclaimed Canadian writer, explores the weight of history and the nature of personal responsibility while asking big questions—about fathers and sons, the banality of evil, and the deceptive games that memory plays on identity.

      

  • April 15–18, 2010
    Benedictus
    By Motti Lerner
    Seven Jewish Children
    By Caryl Churchill
    Only We Who Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy
    By Tony Kushner
    An evening of political theater from three premier practitioners. Benedictus, a simmering thriller from Israel’s Motti Lerner (The Murder of Isaac), tackles the timely topic of nuclear brinkmanship and the delicate negotiations among Iran, Israel, and America. Caryl Churchill’s controversial Seven Jewish Children condenses millennia of history into an intensely poetic moment. And polemic and farce merge in Tony Kushner’s uproarious, passionate, and informed short, featuring an unlikely encounter: Laura Bush and an otherworldly interlocutor. 

  • April 22–25, 2010
    after the quake
    By Haruki Murakami, adapted by Frank Galati
    Over the last three decades, Haruki Murakami’s prize-winning novels (Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore) have heralded the onset of a new generation of Japanese literature. Surreal, yet filled with quotidian detail; influenced by American pop culture as much as by Japanese tradition; characterized by a deadpan humor that covers deep feeling—Murakami is Japan’s Kurt Vonnegut, a Thomas Pynchon for the Far East. In After the Quake, an elliptical short fable inspired by the Kobe earthquake and its aftermath, Murakami’s full range of expression is on display. Tender, nostalgic, fantastical, and utterly modern—a unique perspective on the Tokyo of today, yesterday, and tomorrow.

     

    The readings will also include the ever-popular Toast Bar (a hit during past seasons of our First Look reading series), a chance to enjoy a tasty selection of breads and spreads in addition to the bar service.