Baltimore Footlights: 2014 Readings
The Mad Wooing by Kimberley Lynne
Thursday, March 20 @ 7:30 PM @ Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre
During the Inter-Regnum, the staging of plays was outlawed and offenders were either deported or imprisoned; still, theatre continued in a guerrilla fashion throughout England. Paralleling the difficulty for modern artists to exist in the present economy and the impact of the religious right on government, The Mad Wooing follows the adventures of traveling actors as they illegally perform a section of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew.
Under the Poplar Trees by Rosemary Frisino Toohey
Thursday, May 8 @ 7:30 PM @ Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre
Two prisoners in a concentration camp, one a realist, the other an idealist, become friends. Meyer longs for the courage to kill himself and end his misery, but Josef is in love with life and everything in it. Years later Meyer is an old man living in the States. Frequently he finds himself lost in the memories of his friend, but he refuses to talk about Dachau. It takes another loss for Meyer to finally open up.
For the Love of Oscar by Hope Lynne Price-Lindsay
Thursday, October 23 @ 7:30 PM @ Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre
After a decade of dating losers, a middle-aged divorcee on the verge of giving up on men meets a a kind, handsome, wealthy widower on a dating website. She thinks she's finally found the man of her dreams to grow old with until she's confronted with his "baggage": the ghost of his dead wife who's desperately trying to hold on to his love from the other side.
Raw by Amy Bernstein
Thursday, December 18 @ 7:30 PM @ Single Carrot Theatre
Eliza's dairy farm is under siege: by Caroline, the documentary film-making, grudge-holding heifer she allows into her house to bear witness, for a fee; by Harriet, her inheritance-deprived sister; and by the bacteria lurking in the raw milk lying in wait for son Jamie. Woe descends on Red Robin Farm.
Thursday, March 20 @ 7:30 PM @ Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre
During the Inter-Regnum, the staging of plays was outlawed and offenders were either deported or imprisoned; still, theatre continued in a guerrilla fashion throughout England. Paralleling the difficulty for modern artists to exist in the present economy and the impact of the religious right on government, The Mad Wooing follows the adventures of traveling actors as they illegally perform a section of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew.
Under the Poplar Trees by Rosemary Frisino Toohey
Thursday, May 8 @ 7:30 PM @ Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre
Two prisoners in a concentration camp, one a realist, the other an idealist, become friends. Meyer longs for the courage to kill himself and end his misery, but Josef is in love with life and everything in it. Years later Meyer is an old man living in the States. Frequently he finds himself lost in the memories of his friend, but he refuses to talk about Dachau. It takes another loss for Meyer to finally open up.
For the Love of Oscar by Hope Lynne Price-Lindsay
Thursday, October 23 @ 7:30 PM @ Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre
After a decade of dating losers, a middle-aged divorcee on the verge of giving up on men meets a a kind, handsome, wealthy widower on a dating website. She thinks she's finally found the man of her dreams to grow old with until she's confronted with his "baggage": the ghost of his dead wife who's desperately trying to hold on to his love from the other side.
Raw by Amy Bernstein
Thursday, December 18 @ 7:30 PM @ Single Carrot Theatre
Eliza's dairy farm is under siege: by Caroline, the documentary film-making, grudge-holding heifer she allows into her house to bear witness, for a fee; by Harriet, her inheritance-deprived sister; and by the bacteria lurking in the raw milk lying in wait for son Jamie. Woe descends on Red Robin Farm.