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Carlo D’Amore, Nancy Giles, Chay Yew, et al. Set for Passage Theater’s Solo Flights Festival

Chay Yew
Chay Yew

Passage Theatre has announced the lineup for its 10th Annual Solo Flights Festival, to be offered March 4-27 at the Mill Hill Playhouse. The event highlights a variety of one-person performances.

At the Festival’s center will be Carlo D’Amore’s No Parole, which will be offered for three performances, March 12 & 19 at 8pm, and March 27 at 3pm. Directed by Margaret Perry, the autobiographical piece introduces audiences to the writer/performer’s mother, a woman with a penchant for pretending to be people she’s not.

The event will also feature Mary Martello’s The Style of Weill (March 4 at 8pm, March 12 at 3pm), a portrait of composer Kurt Weill told through his music and anecdotes; Terry Waldo’s Tales From the Bawdy House (March 5 at 8pm, March 6 at 3pm), a look at a variety of some of the country’s most colorful cities, told through song and story; chandra thomas’ Forgive to Forget (March 17 at 8pm), a look at a woman coming to terms with her complicated relationship with her father; Martin Dockery’s Wanderlust (March 18 at 8pm, March 20 at 3pm), which centers on a man’s trip into Africa, searching for some insight into his past and future; and Black Comedy: The Wacky Side of Post?-Racism (March 25 & 26 at 8pm), a new work from humorist and television commentator Nancy Giles.

The festival will also include readings of Deen’s Draw the Circle, directed by Chay Yew, and David Lee White’s Slippery as Sin, directed by Adam Immerwahr.

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