2017 South Stage Season
Innovative Theater & New Works
Two Lights
A New Play
Drama by Brett Busang
April 8 - April 30
(NO SHOW: Easter - April 16)
Directed by Brandy Jones
Set in the 1950s, Two Lights is about an unequal partnership between two artists, though the partnership has lasted –until Clarice, a neighbor, seeks companionship and consolation–for forty years. It unravels as Jen begins to realize that she has been cheated of her due because she happens to be married to an artist who is spectacularly successful. In the interest of embracing the autonomy that’s been denied her and ready to exit the relationship, she lashes out at her husband Al.
The Pachyderm Project
Workshop for A New Play
By
Tom Eubanks, Alex Cjaika, Hannah Eubanks & Trent Trachtenberg
August 19 - September 10
Directed by Tom Eubanks
This play writing and acting project will consist of six stages over 10 months, led by ETC’s Artistic Director, Tom Eubanks, working with three teens, who will assist in the process of writing a play. The play will be performed by Alex, Hannah and Trent. The characters and storyline will be drawn from their own experiences and personalities. The six stages are:
Stage One: Exploration & Foraging
This process is meant to explore possibilities for the structure of the story and the characters, a search for ideas, using questions addressed to the other three participating members of the project.
Stage Two: Congregating
Participants talk in depth about the play, adding to the understanding and detail of the story.
Stage Three: Migrating
At this stage we move from a place of socialization to creating the play. Tom will begin writing the play, using all the information gathered from the other three participants. He will send writing assignments, including the writing of a monologue for their individual character; some may be to work their character's dialogue in a specific scene; or it may be to simply have them give Tom some personal insight into their character’s actions and dialogue.
Stage Four: The Dung Heap
Once the first draft of the play is written, we will move into an editing period, where Tom will send the script to the three teens, and they will each give feed back. This will help Tom know what to put on the "dung heap" and what to keep. From this, Tom will write a working draft of the play.
Stage Five: Raising the Tent
With a working draft, the participants will come together and do a reading of the play, perhaps in front of some friends, playwrights and other theater people to get their feedback. From this, Tom will write a final draft.
Stage Six: The Circus
Rehearsals will begin on July 10, 2017. We'll open the play for a four-week run on Saturday afternoons at 2 p.m. and Sunday evenings at 7 p.m. from August 19 - September 10, 2017.
Stage One: Exploration & Foraging
This process is meant to explore possibilities for the structure of the story and the characters, a search for ideas, using questions addressed to the other three participating members of the project.
Stage Two: Congregating
Participants talk in depth about the play, adding to the understanding and detail of the story.
Stage Three: Migrating
At this stage we move from a place of socialization to creating the play. Tom will begin writing the play, using all the information gathered from the other three participants. He will send writing assignments, including the writing of a monologue for their individual character; some may be to work their character's dialogue in a specific scene; or it may be to simply have them give Tom some personal insight into their character’s actions and dialogue.
Stage Four: The Dung Heap
Once the first draft of the play is written, we will move into an editing period, where Tom will send the script to the three teens, and they will each give feed back. This will help Tom know what to put on the "dung heap" and what to keep. From this, Tom will write a working draft of the play.
Stage Five: Raising the Tent
With a working draft, the participants will come together and do a reading of the play, perhaps in front of some friends, playwrights and other theater people to get their feedback. From this, Tom will write a final draft.
Stage Six: The Circus
Rehearsals will begin on July 10, 2017. We'll open the play for a four-week run on Saturday afternoons at 2 p.m. and Sunday evenings at 7 p.m. from August 19 - September 10, 2017.
A Play about Drones
A New Play
Drama by Keith Foster
December 1 - 17
Directed by Brian Robert Harris
Suspicious of the US government’s use of drones, a man named Papa begins an underground colony. While the three individuals who join him don’t necessarily share his convictions, they each harbor their own desires to escape the chaos of the world outside. The laws they’ve created for themselves are immediately thrown into question when a military woman named Joan breaks into the colony. They strain to maintain control, but as distrust grows and chaos reigns, the characters’ preoccupation with drones is overtaken by their need for order.
