Orlando Shakes has announced the plays and events its showcasing in Playfest April 2-11, 2010.
Keynote Event: Philip Seymour Hoffman
In an "Inside the Actors Studio" type of interview, Jim Helsinger talks to actor Philip Seymour Hoffman about his career in film, theatre and new plays. Saturday, April 10 at 7:30 PM.
NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK ROLLING WORLD PREMIERE
Shotgun
By John Biguenet
Directed by David Lee
Four months after Katrina, a white man and his teenage son rent half of a shotgun duplex apartment from an African American woman and her father. Seething racial tensions bubble to the surface when love begins to bloom.
WORKSHOP
Heavier Than
By Steven Christopher Yockey
Directed by Patrick Flick
This mash-up of Greek myths unfolds inside a sprawling labyrinth where Aster the Minotaur contemplates turning 30 and pines for his long-absent mother while navigating a deceptive chorus, a plotting sister, a masochistic, sexually obsessed boy with wings and the impending arrival of warriors out for blood.
SPECIAL EVENTS
PLAYWRIGHTS PANEL
What is the Role of Actor in New Play Development? Join authors, actors and directors for a scintillating conversation about new plays and their development
PLAY IN A DAY
Orlando Fringe Festival Artistic Director Beth Marshall brings the Orlando Community together to produce this much beloved, traditional Orlando event.
READINGS
The Weird Sisters
By Zack Calhoon
Directed by Patrick Braillard
Muriel, Seonaid and Rhoswen, three women rebuked and thwarted by Duncan's diseased, Scottish government are brought together by need, by revenge and by design. Meet the witches of Shakespeare's Macbeth in Zack Calhoon's prequel, THE WEIRD SISTERS before they took their revenge; before they cast their first spell.
Glassheart
By Reina Hardy
Sponsored by Women Playwrights' Initiative
Directed by Robin Olson
It's Beauty and the Beast. But Beauty never showed up. After centuries under the curse, the Beast and his last servant move from into a shabby Chicago apartment. In the world of paying rent and taking public transportation, is a happy ending even possible?
Once a Marine
By Kelly Younger
Directed by Richard Perez
A shell-shocked marine returns home with no recollection of the life, or the wife, he left behind. The only woman he does remember – the one he came back for – is his first love of fifteen years ago. His bittersweet homecoming rekindles that love, and dredges up his most painful of memories. He must choose a future of blissful ignorance or a past of buried grief. But he is not the one who will decide.
Citizen Eve
By Scott Bibb & Jerry Rice
Directed by Kenny Howard
The witches from Macbeth reveal their show-biz connections in this irresistible brew of uproarious comedy, fearless imagination, Hollywood nostalgia, and all-too-human desires. It's 1950 and Joe Mankiewicz is toiling and troubling over the script of "All About Eve." Enter the supernatural and things get even bumpier. Enter Bette Davis and, well...fasten your seat belt!
Time in Kafka
By Len Jenkin
Directed by David Lee
A manic recently ex-assistant professor at a small college, his loving wife, Franz Kafka, a European sanatorium, two mercurial con-people, and a time-slip--the present sliding away to 1913...trains, bars, airplanes, poisoned sausage, The Trial......A fable, a quixotic journey, and a determined yet demented quest for one man’s own truth….
Vino Veritas
By David MacGregor
Presented by Orlando Theatre Project
On Halloween night, two couples prepare to attend an annual costume party. Though the evening begins as usual, familiar traditions unravel when the foursome shares a bottle of South American ceremonial wine made from the skin of blue dart tree frogs. Under the influence of this tribal truth serum, what follows is an unpredictable night of unbridled honesty that stretches the bounds of their friendship forever.
Daedalus
By David Davalos
Directed by Kate Ingram
The London Times, January 27, 2010: "Scientists Want to Exhume Leonardo da Vinci to Solve Mona Lisa Mystery" But why go to all that trouble when you can just see David Davalos' play Daedalus for the shocking and funny answer? And meet Machiavelli and the Borgias, as well as go for a ride on a 16th-century flying machine, to boot...
Night Blooms
By Margaret Baldwin
Directed by Laurel Clark
Two families – one white and one black – cope with change in Selma in 1965. On the day of the march, the Stafford household laughs, cries, celebrates a bloom, and waits for news when an unexpected freedom fighter appears on their doorstep. A moving story of ordinary people and extraordinary change.
The Truth Will Out
By Jordan Seavey
Directed by John DiDonna
In The Truth Will Out, an allegedly closeted national news anchor is confronted and threatened by the accused killer of an African American gay teenage boy. Tina Turner, Ellen Degeneres, Edward R. Murrow and Katherine the Great collide with the theatrical doppelgangers of a famous news anchor and his high society mother in a play that dares to tackle a recent national tragedy while asking some dangerous questions about human behavior and basic human rights.
Keynote Event: Philip Seymour Hoffman
In an "Inside the Actors Studio" type of interview, Jim Helsinger talks to actor Philip Seymour Hoffman about his career in film, theatre and new plays. Saturday, April 10 at 7:30 PM.
NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK ROLLING WORLD PREMIERE
Shotgun
By John Biguenet
Directed by David Lee
Four months after Katrina, a white man and his teenage son rent half of a shotgun duplex apartment from an African American woman and her father. Seething racial tensions bubble to the surface when love begins to bloom.
WORKSHOP
Heavier Than
By Steven Christopher Yockey
Directed by Patrick Flick
This mash-up of Greek myths unfolds inside a sprawling labyrinth where Aster the Minotaur contemplates turning 30 and pines for his long-absent mother while navigating a deceptive chorus, a plotting sister, a masochistic, sexually obsessed boy with wings and the impending arrival of warriors out for blood.
SPECIAL EVENTS
PLAYWRIGHTS PANEL
What is the Role of Actor in New Play Development? Join authors, actors and directors for a scintillating conversation about new plays and their development
PLAY IN A DAY
Orlando Fringe Festival Artistic Director Beth Marshall brings the Orlando Community together to produce this much beloved, traditional Orlando event.
READINGS
The Weird Sisters
By Zack Calhoon
Directed by Patrick Braillard
Muriel, Seonaid and Rhoswen, three women rebuked and thwarted by Duncan's diseased, Scottish government are brought together by need, by revenge and by design. Meet the witches of Shakespeare's Macbeth in Zack Calhoon's prequel, THE WEIRD SISTERS before they took their revenge; before they cast their first spell.
Glassheart
By Reina Hardy
Sponsored by Women Playwrights' Initiative
Directed by Robin Olson
It's Beauty and the Beast. But Beauty never showed up. After centuries under the curse, the Beast and his last servant move from into a shabby Chicago apartment. In the world of paying rent and taking public transportation, is a happy ending even possible?
Once a Marine
By Kelly Younger
Directed by Richard Perez
A shell-shocked marine returns home with no recollection of the life, or the wife, he left behind. The only woman he does remember – the one he came back for – is his first love of fifteen years ago. His bittersweet homecoming rekindles that love, and dredges up his most painful of memories. He must choose a future of blissful ignorance or a past of buried grief. But he is not the one who will decide.
Citizen Eve
By Scott Bibb & Jerry Rice
Directed by Kenny Howard
The witches from Macbeth reveal their show-biz connections in this irresistible brew of uproarious comedy, fearless imagination, Hollywood nostalgia, and all-too-human desires. It's 1950 and Joe Mankiewicz is toiling and troubling over the script of "All About Eve." Enter the supernatural and things get even bumpier. Enter Bette Davis and, well...fasten your seat belt!
Time in Kafka
By Len Jenkin
Directed by David Lee
A manic recently ex-assistant professor at a small college, his loving wife, Franz Kafka, a European sanatorium, two mercurial con-people, and a time-slip--the present sliding away to 1913...trains, bars, airplanes, poisoned sausage, The Trial......A fable, a quixotic journey, and a determined yet demented quest for one man’s own truth….
Vino Veritas
By David MacGregor
Presented by Orlando Theatre Project
On Halloween night, two couples prepare to attend an annual costume party. Though the evening begins as usual, familiar traditions unravel when the foursome shares a bottle of South American ceremonial wine made from the skin of blue dart tree frogs. Under the influence of this tribal truth serum, what follows is an unpredictable night of unbridled honesty that stretches the bounds of their friendship forever.
Daedalus
By David Davalos
Directed by Kate Ingram
The London Times, January 27, 2010: "Scientists Want to Exhume Leonardo da Vinci to Solve Mona Lisa Mystery" But why go to all that trouble when you can just see David Davalos' play Daedalus for the shocking and funny answer? And meet Machiavelli and the Borgias, as well as go for a ride on a 16th-century flying machine, to boot...
Night Blooms
By Margaret Baldwin
Directed by Laurel Clark
Two families – one white and one black – cope with change in Selma in 1965. On the day of the march, the Stafford household laughs, cries, celebrates a bloom, and waits for news when an unexpected freedom fighter appears on their doorstep. A moving story of ordinary people and extraordinary change.
The Truth Will Out
By Jordan Seavey
Directed by John DiDonna
In The Truth Will Out, an allegedly closeted national news anchor is confronted and threatened by the accused killer of an African American gay teenage boy. Tina Turner, Ellen Degeneres, Edward R. Murrow and Katherine the Great collide with the theatrical doppelgangers of a famous news anchor and his high society mother in a play that dares to tackle a recent national tragedy while asking some dangerous questions about human behavior and basic human rights.