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Rattlestick Announces April 2009 Dates for the Evening Reading Series
Rattlestick’s next exciting installments of the new Evening Reading Series are announced!
The reading series is Rattlestick’s newest initiative to assist emerging playwrights by allowing them to hear their work out loud, and in front of an audience.
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Please RSVP with the name and date of the reading you wish to attend to the Literary Department here.
Hallway – Monday April 20
Written and directed by Adam Rapp
Featuring: Jeff Biehl, Guy Boyd, Louis Cancelmi, Danny Mastrogiorgio, Annie Parisse, Paul Sparks, Elisabeth Waterston, Katherine Waterston and Gary Wilmes
Monday April 20, 7:00pm
November 28th, 1953, the night following the death of Eugene O’Neill. It is the height of the McCarthy Era when communism paranoia is at its most prevalent. Rose Bumper, a young actress enters a Lower East Side Tenement looking for the famous playwright, believing he has staged his own death and is hiding out on the third floor.
THE SANDRECKONER
Written by Dan Dietz
Directed by Tom Caruso
Featuring: Reed Birney, Kellie Overbey and Matt Doyle.
Sunday, April 26th at 8pm (please note the later time)
Harold Bix’s life has fallen apart. A tragedy at the local high school has cost him his job, his family, and everything he held dear. And at the center of the whole mess is Donny Trombull, a kid who knows way more than he’s telling. So on a sweet suburban evening in June, Harold invites Donny over for a conversation that’s long overdue. Will Donny be the key to solving the terrible puzzle that’s consumed Harold’s life? Or will their game of cat and mouse spiral out of control? A darkly funny mystery about violence, the suburbs, and the search for answers in the wake of tragedy.
Monster Yellow Couch – Monday April 27
by Sam Marks
directed by John Gould Rubin
featuring: Elizabeth Canavan, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Sal Inzerillo and others
Monday April 27, 7:00pm
Ben Salter, an overweight, insecure, precocious 14 year old, looks up to Big John, his hard drinking and frustrated father. To prove himself Ben makes an intriguing bet with Martha, his father’s unkempt, seductive girlfriend. The bet has messy results as Big John and Ben, expelled from Martha’s apartment, must sleep in the aisles of a theater. Father and son are left to ask: Who betrayed whom? Who will save whom? And will Ben ever get to lay down on his own bed again? A play about standing alone.
