Baltimore Footlights: 2015 Readings
Tea for Tigers by Rich Espey
Thursday, January 29 @ 7:30 PM @ Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre
In August of 1995, President Nelson Mandela of South Africa visited Betsie Verwoerdt, the widow of the Prime Minister who was the "architect of apartheid" and had imprisoned Mandela. No one knows how their tea party went. This play is about that meeting, and it is definitely not what really happened.
Corn by Ted Gettinger
Thursday, February 19 @ 7 PM @ Single Carrot Theatre
Corn is the story of two lifelong friends living what appears to be the perfect life in paradise. After one faces a devastatingly public humiliation at the hands of the girl he thought was "the one," these two friends must determine how to continue living when the dream has become a nightmare and paradise has become your own personal hell.
B-SideMan by Alonzo LaMont
Thursday, February 19 @ 8 PM @ Single Carrot Theatre
In B-SideMan, a middle-aged African-American man reflects on growing up black but not angry, his life as a playwright, experience as an exotic dancer, the loss of his son, his journey from “individual satellite” to married man ... and ultimately his ongoing battle to keep his creative journey alive.
Pope Joan II by Pat Montley
Monday, March 9 @ 7 PM @ Rep Stage
Urged by apparitions of her namesakes St. Joan and Joan Rivers (channeling the 9th-century Pope Joan I), and armed with an infusion of the Life Force, Sister Joan--faster than a speeding angel, more powerful than a prayer, able to leap clerical hierarchies in a single bound--blackmails her way to becoming pope, so she can fight the never-ending battle for truth, justice, gender equality, and the American way by transforming the Catholic Church into a liberal democracy, thus saving the world from overpopulating.
Tall Tales of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox and Sultana's Sauce by Kimberley Lynne
Thursday, May 28 @ 7:30 PM @ Single Carrot Theatre
In Tall Tales, commissioned by Pumpkin Theatre and co-written with Michael Stricker, a classic American folk hero re-surfaces at the annual Greater North American Woodsmen (GNAW) Tall Tale Competition.
Sultana's Sauce is the story of Victorian chef Alexis Soyer’s soup kitchen, where he displayed soup-eating Irish famine victims for a four-shilling fee to rich British ex-pats. Next door at the Dublin zoo, it cost five shillings to watch the monkeys.
The Quickening by Mark Scharf
Thursday, October 29 @ 7:30 pm @ Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre
A ghost story for the stage, The Quickening explores age-old questions regarding the end of life and how science, religion, and folklore have sought to provide answers.
Die, Mr. Darcy, Die! by John Morogiello
Thursday, November 12 @ 7:30 PM @ University of Baltimore
After a series of bad relationships, a young woman decides to give up on men because they can never live up to the hero of Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice.
Thursday, January 29 @ 7:30 PM @ Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre
In August of 1995, President Nelson Mandela of South Africa visited Betsie Verwoerdt, the widow of the Prime Minister who was the "architect of apartheid" and had imprisoned Mandela. No one knows how their tea party went. This play is about that meeting, and it is definitely not what really happened.
Corn by Ted Gettinger
Thursday, February 19 @ 7 PM @ Single Carrot Theatre
Corn is the story of two lifelong friends living what appears to be the perfect life in paradise. After one faces a devastatingly public humiliation at the hands of the girl he thought was "the one," these two friends must determine how to continue living when the dream has become a nightmare and paradise has become your own personal hell.
B-SideMan by Alonzo LaMont
Thursday, February 19 @ 8 PM @ Single Carrot Theatre
In B-SideMan, a middle-aged African-American man reflects on growing up black but not angry, his life as a playwright, experience as an exotic dancer, the loss of his son, his journey from “individual satellite” to married man ... and ultimately his ongoing battle to keep his creative journey alive.
Pope Joan II by Pat Montley
Monday, March 9 @ 7 PM @ Rep Stage
Urged by apparitions of her namesakes St. Joan and Joan Rivers (channeling the 9th-century Pope Joan I), and armed with an infusion of the Life Force, Sister Joan--faster than a speeding angel, more powerful than a prayer, able to leap clerical hierarchies in a single bound--blackmails her way to becoming pope, so she can fight the never-ending battle for truth, justice, gender equality, and the American way by transforming the Catholic Church into a liberal democracy, thus saving the world from overpopulating.
Tall Tales of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox and Sultana's Sauce by Kimberley Lynne
Thursday, May 28 @ 7:30 PM @ Single Carrot Theatre
In Tall Tales, commissioned by Pumpkin Theatre and co-written with Michael Stricker, a classic American folk hero re-surfaces at the annual Greater North American Woodsmen (GNAW) Tall Tale Competition.
Sultana's Sauce is the story of Victorian chef Alexis Soyer’s soup kitchen, where he displayed soup-eating Irish famine victims for a four-shilling fee to rich British ex-pats. Next door at the Dublin zoo, it cost five shillings to watch the monkeys.
The Quickening by Mark Scharf
Thursday, October 29 @ 7:30 pm @ Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre
A ghost story for the stage, The Quickening explores age-old questions regarding the end of life and how science, religion, and folklore have sought to provide answers.
Die, Mr. Darcy, Die! by John Morogiello
Thursday, November 12 @ 7:30 PM @ University of Baltimore
After a series of bad relationships, a young woman decides to give up on men because they can never live up to the hero of Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice.