About This Show
Staged readings of four original full-length plays will be presented by the Long Beach Playhouse at its 15th Annual New Works Festival. Discussions follow the readings, and the playwrights receive written critiques by drama critics, a videotape of the reading, an honorarium, and consideration for a full production.
SCHEDULE
MARCH 26 at 2pm
THE QUALITY OF LIGHT by Richard Martin Hirsch
In the south of France, two lovers; an older woman and a younger man meet by chance, and for two days the mismatched pair share an intensely physical, emotional and sometimes comical time together, which then leads to revelations that have potentially lethal consequences.
APRIL 30 at 2pm
HIGH TEA/ WITH HIS EXCELLENCY by Robert Joseph Ahola
A highly-amusing adult comedy wherein one man’s obsession with the truth collides with the hidden fantasies of a room full of not-so-repressed women.
MAY 28 at 2pm
OUT OF YOUR MIND by Arthur Kraft
An American fireman on vacation in Italy is in a car collision with a young Italian lingerie saleslady. Both are injured and a neurosurgeon downloads their brain information into a computer while he operates, then restores them — to the wrong bodies. Husky, 40-year-old Joe returns to California looking very much like a petite, 25-year-old Italian woman.
JUNE 25 at 2pm
SCENES FROM MY LIFE by Tom Sharkey
A romantic comedy involving two drama school graduates who have wildly different experiences revealed through three ten-year reunions. As they mature their lives become entwined with the silver screen, unrequited love, heartbreak, death, Shakespeare, Sheridan and Shaw.