LAFPI

The Playwrights Union invites you to our 10th annual reading series, featuring the brand new work of some of our member playwrights–four of them female. All plays were drafted during our February Writing Challenge, and revised in the weeks leading up to this event. Come participate in the process of play creation and join our reception on Saturday night!

The plays by women playwrights are:

Saturday, May 18th

4pm
VISITING HOURS by Jami Brandli
A reclaiming of the Persephone myth, now set in a psychiatric hospital, Visiting Hours fallows the arduous journey of Stephie Green, a middle-aged music teacher who must break free from her complicated past in order to be reunited with her family.

6pm
DESERT SURVIVAL RULES by Abbey Fenbert
Clare treks to the remote shrine of folk heroine Loretta North to discover what it takes to survive in the desert.

7:30pm
THE ORDEAL OF WATER by Stephanie Alison Walker
1977. The first two female longshoremen at the Port of Los Angeles are trapped by their male co-workers in the cargo hold of a container ship just as it is heading to Shanghai. As they struggle to survive, they are visited by witches, who both help them and test them.

9:30pm
RECEPTION

Sunday, June 11th

4:30pm
CALL TIME by Deb Hiett
A group of misfit drama kids break into their abandoned high school auditorium in search of one last night of connection, hope, rhymes, and Fritos.

The 2019 FIRST PEEK reading series also features DIFFERENT by Josh Levine and SUNSHINE TERRACE by Dan Steele

Held at VS. Theatre – free street and metered parking available. Readings free, donations welcome

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