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Garson Theatre Company
Presents
Claire Stewart Williamson
New Works Series
Emerging and Established
Writers Workshop
at the Weckesser Studio Theatre
June 7–28, 2008
Reservations
Greer Garson Theatre box office
(505) 473-6511
The plays will be rehearsed for three days then followed by two public reading of the work at 2:00 and 7:00. Each play will conclude with an audience talkback.
Peter Zapp, Producer
Saturday, June 7, 2 pm and 7 pm
Save Me
Written by Stefanie Zadravec
Directed by John Shepard
A bright red wig, a postcard from the edge, a super-hero sex addict and a bouquet of flowers from a woman without a nose. Save Me is a comic drama about family, faith, and the people who transform us. Caroline, a food stylist and frustrated artist is diagnosed with a stage four brain tumor. She finds herself unable to reach out to her her best friend Martin, a self-proclaimed sex addict with a thing for men in tights and so calls her estranged sister Beth, a Born Again Christian who takes the first Greyhound to New York, bible in tow. Also in tow, with hair recently dyed cherry red, is Beth’s teenage daughter Rachel, who hasn’t uttered a kind word to her mother in months. When Beth performs a faith healing on Caroline, miracles arrive in unexpected packages.
Saturday, June 14, 2 pm and 7 pm
Brotherly Love
Written by Gary Dontzig
Directed by Clara Soister
Every family has its secrets; every family tells lies; every family fights. Most families survive. But when the secrets and the lies have been buried for decades and they are finally revealed, the fights can be far more complicated. Welcome to the New England home of Mark and Jane Grant. On a very usual spring weekend, their son has decided to come home for a visit; Mark’s older brother unexpectedly comes by with his new, young and very pregnant wife; secrets are uncovered, lies are revealed and lives are changed, when two brothers confront their past on a spring weekend at a New England farmhouse.
Saturday, June 21, 2 pm and 7 pm
Among The Shadows Haunting
Written by Leigh Podgorski
Directed by Dave Florek
Among The Shadows Haunting explores the story of Tshashin’s granddaughter Christine and her husband Mickey Tabor. In love from the time they met while still in their teens, their love is sorely tested when Christine's Indian blood, long denied, is awakened by her mother's illness and death. When Christine discovers within herself the power of healing, she has no choice but to leave Mickey and go to the desert to learn the ancient ways of her people.
Saturday, June 28, 2 pm and 7 pm
6 Hotels
Written and directed by Israel Horovitz
From 1968’s The Indian Wants the Bronx to 2008’s Beirut Rocks, Israel Horovitz has created postage-stamp dramas that garner world-acclaim. Last season in NYC welcomed Israel Horovitz’s New Shorts, inspiring the drama critic for Backstage to write “Watching these new one-acts by one of the American theatre’s most respected contemporary playwrights is like looking at Picasso’s sketches.” The critic for Broadway.com wrote “Israel Horovitz is an undisputed master of the short play format.” And the drama critic for New Theatre Corps commented “That Horovitz, after so many plays, can still seem fresh, young, and fierce is not surprising. But it is refreshingly satisfying to see, much like this collection of short plays.” Horovitz has gathered four of his New Shorts (The Audition Play, The Fat Guy Gets The Girl, Beirut Rocks, and The Hotel Play), and added to them two brand new plays, Fiddleheads and Lovers, and 2nd Violin, to create 6 Hotels, which is having its world premiere here at the Garson Theatre Company’s Festival 2008, prior to its NYC premiere at Theatre Row, in October.
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