Fringe Festival of New Plays

SCA Theatre Series sponsored by Cox Radio’s WSTC/WNLK and F.D. Rich Company present the 5th annual Fringe Festival of New Plays,
a place where actors, directors, playwrights and the audience participate in the most intriguing process of all…the birth of new plays. Performed as staged readings, a resident repertory company of professional actors presents compelling new works looking for life in the American Theatre.

The plays and playwrights include:

OUT OF MIND
7 Short Plays with Some of the People Missing by Jenny Lyn Bader,
directed by Ari Kreith
Relationships are never quite what they seem to be — especially in this play cycle about people who are invisible, missing, or barely there! The characters search for the perfect date, recover from heartbreak, baby-sit under mysterious circumstances, meet their idols, and learn to sleep… but nothing goes as planned. These tender comedies celebrate love, revel in human connection, and offer a glimpse of the unseen: Don’t believe your eyes.

MID-STRUT by Eric Burns, directed by Mitchell Maxwell
Jack Allison has six months to live. Maybe a year. He must use the time wisely. So he thinks back three and a half decades, to the majorette who won his heart in high school, and decides to look her up and ask her to send him off with a grand and glorious night of passion. She is amazed. Her husband is suspicious. His mistress is cranky. Nothing turns out as anyone expects.

TALLBOY WALKIN’ by Joshua James, Directed by George E. Moredock, III
It’s the story of five different men, of different ages and ethnic backgrounds, who find themselves stranded at a bus stop late at night in a dangerous urban city. A confrontation between two men, men of color, holds the other three men as their unwilling captive audience, trapped by circumstances, a late bus and the presence of a loaded firearm. A high-wire meditation on race, religion and the comedy of life.

BREAKING and ENTERING by Colin Mitchell, directed by Lynne Colatrella
A dark, two-character comedy that follows the story of W. J. Trumbull, a man who wrote “one of the great American novels of the twentieth century” then disappeared into seclusion, never to be seen again for the next fifty years. Into this hermetically sealed world comes Mildred Smith, a young, Trumbull-obsessed fan on a desperate mission to discover the truth of her own heritage and how it connects with her idol’s retreat from public life. What follows is the harrowing descent into the murky world of truth and illusion.