About the Show
The 13th Annual Living Newspaper Festival
Six news articles. Six new one-act plays. Three weekends.
ARTICLES 1 & 2: DOUG and CHILD PROTECTION
Playing May 27 – 29th, 2022 ONLY!
Join us at our venue in the Broadway Armory for the opening weekend of the festival. Presenting two new 20-min. plays inspired by recent news articles.
ARTICLE #1
DOUG
By Paloma Nozicka*
Directed by Kaiser Ahmed*
“It Could’ve Been the World’s Largest Potato, if Only It Were a Potato” – The New York Times, March 17, 2022
Approx. Runtime: 20min.
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ARTICLE #2
CHILD PROTECTION
By Jesse Alana Robkin
Directed by Carter Caldwell
“Dreading the knock at the door: Parents of trans kids in Texas are terrified for their families” – The Washington Post, March 17, 2022.
Approx. Runtime: 20min.
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL!
Jackalope returns to in-person performances in our Armory theater by presenting a fresh take on our annual Living Newspapers Festival. In the past, we had asked six playwrights to write 10-minute plays, each based on news articles, and presented all six pieces each evening over a single weekend at our old Frontier space.
This year, we’ll be spreading the festival out over 3 consecutive weekends of double-headers. We are expanding each of the plays from 10 minutes to 20 minutes, with two of the pieces being performed in rep over a single weekend, followed by 2 new pieces performed in rep the following weekend and another two after that. Catch a performance each weekend to see all six in-depth plays.
(Visit www.Jackalopetheatre.org for information on the plays featured in Weekends #2 and #3)