| BEDLAM Announces Readings for DO MORE: NEW PLAYS Series | |
| Last Edit: Official_Press_Release 12:04 pm EDT 03/13/24 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 11:48 am EDT 03/13/24 | |
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| BEDLAM ANNOUNCES READINGS FOR THEIR 2024 DO MORE: NEW PLAYS SERIES THIS SPRING AT THE WEST END THEATRE FREE TICKETS BY RESERVATION ONLY VISIT BEDLAM.ORG FOR MORE INFORMATION (New York, NY) Now in its fourth year, Bedlam's DO MORE: NEW PLAYS readings series returns with five thrilling new pieces of theater. All performances for the series will take place at the West End Theatre (263 W 86th St). Curated by Associate Artistic Director Zachary Elkind, DO MORE: NEW PLAYS has developed work by writers including Zora Howard, Julian Hornik, Emily Gardner Xu Hall, Stefani Kuo, Eleanor Burgess, a.k. payne, Zack Fine, Emily Breeze, Rachel Vail, Daniel K. Isaac, Adrienne Dawes, and Bailey Williams, as well as Talene Monahon‘s THE GOOD JOHN PROCTOR and Zuzanna Szadkowski and Deb Knox‘s FALL RIVER FISHING, both of which were ultimately produced in Bedlam’s Spring 2023 season. Bedlam is proud to create a home for the messy, necessary work of creating the next generation of classic plays. The DO MORE: NEW PLAYS series of 2024 will feature: THIS IS WHAT THE DAYS ARE March 25, 2024, at 7pm at the West End Theatre By Madison Fiedler Directed by Francesca Sabel Featuring Moe Angelos, John Behlmann, Kayli Carter, Peter Francis James, Deidre Staples, and Nicole Villamil THIS IS WHAT THE DAYS ARE follows a back-to-the-land community of grievers as they plant perennials and slaughter pigs and face the task of living as the left-behind. RESERVE YOUR TICKET TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH April 29, 2024, at 7pm at the West End Theatre By Renae Simone Jarrett Directed by Kate Whoriskey Casting to be announced at a later date. Two sisters get lost in the woods and in the murkiness of their misremembered histories. RESERVE YOUR TICKET WHORE AND WIFE May 12, 2024, at 4pm at the West End Theatre By Emily Breeze Directed by Zachary Elkind WHORE AND WIFE is a high-camp farce about a brothel on the brink in 1802 in Dendermonde, Flanders. Hijinks, bodily horrors, and hilarity ensue. RESERVE YOUR TICKET SUPPOSED HOME May 6th, 2024, at 7pm at the West End Theatre By Sam Hamashima Shiyoko left the Japanese American Concentration Camps a long time ago, but a part of her stays in the desert. With questions from a curious grandson, Shiyoko’s world becomes split into dueling realities of truth, fiction, anime, and realism. Past and present become one landscape in this epic as enemies are revealed, companions are found, trauma is unpacked, and what was only thought becomes (un)spoken word. A poetic impression from the grandchild of the imprisoned, SUPPOSED HOME brings a new piece of the puzzle that is the Japanese American experience. RESERVE YOUR TICKET DIARY OF WAR June 2, 2024, at 2pm at the West End Theatre Diaries collected by Daria Kolomiec Directed by Zuzanna Szadkowski A collection of first-hand accounts of the invasion in Ukraine from people across the country and from different walks of life, performed by the members of Bedlam’s Veterans Outreach program along with Bedlam company members. RESERVE YOUR TICKET Now in its fourth year, Bedlam's DO MORE: NEW PLAYS readings series returns with five thrilling new pieces of theater. Curated by Associate Artistic Director Zachary Elkind, DO MORE: NEW PLAYS has developed work by writers including Zora Howard, Julian Hornik, Emily Gardner Xu Hall, Stefani Kuo, Eleanor Burgess, a.k. payne, Zack Fine, Emily Breeze, Rachel Vail, Daniel K. Isaac, Adrienne Dawes, and Bailey Williams, as well as Talene Monahon‘s THE GOOD JOHN PROCTOR and Zuzanna Szadkowski and Deb Knox‘s FALL RIVER FISHING, both of which were ultimately produced in Bedlam’s Spring 2023 season. Bedlam is proud to create a home for the messy, necessary work of creating the next generation of classic plays. You can support the work of Bedlam’s Do More New Plays series! We’d be grateful for your help in keeping all our readings completely free to attend. Bedlam is grateful for your friendship and support. SUPPORT BEDLAM’s MISSION: Committed to the immediacy of the relationship between the actor and the audience, Bedlam creates works of theatre that reinvigorate traditional forms in a flexible, raw space, collapsing aesthetic distance and bringing its viewers into direct contact with the dangers and delicacies of life. In this new, fresh, active environment storytelling becomes paramount and the result is a kinetic experience of shared empathy. |
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