The Next Great American Playwright Festival

Spotlight On presents The Next Great American Playwright Festival. Featured works include:

KIWI DREAMS by Renee Flemings
Thurs. 8/21 5:30p (reception included)
Fri 8/22 7:30p
Sat. 8/23 5p
Sat. 8/23 11:30p (reception included)
Sex… Erotica… words… movement… music.
A prose performance piece with music and movement takes you on a journey between the sheets, into the heart and behind closed doors. Written
and directed by Renee Flemings, Kiwi Dreams and Other Erotic Fantasies is a collection of poems, monologues and musical interludes that explore sensuality in it’s various forms. Childhood desires, urban
fantasies and dark secrets told from many perspectives.

FAIRY PLAYZ by Andres Wrath
Fri. 8/22 2:30pm (reception included)
Fri 8/22 11:30pm (reception included)
Sat. 8/23 7p
Sun. 8/24 1p
On August 22nd you will discover the sordid side of fairies your kindergarten teacher didn’t want you to know about. The Fairy Playz asks pointed questions like, “Can a fairy go to A.A.?”; “Can mortals and fairies change powers?”; “Is my daddy a fairy?”; and, “Can a fairy be a bitch and change things from right to wrong?” So put on those pairs of wings and take out that magic wand, close your eyes, adjust your fishnets and make a wish! No one under 17 admitted without adult supervision.

4 AM LIZBETH by Jonathan Calindas
Thurs. 8/21 3pm
Sat. 8/23 2:30pm
Sun. 8/24 3:30 pm
The 4am ‘lizbeth – A tribute to the Elizabeth, New Jersey, the author’s hometown. Three lifelong friends come of age as they hang out on an abandoned railroad track supposedly haunted by the ghost train ‘The 4am ‘lizbeth’. A play about the common man’s hopes and dreams in small city America, Jerry, Jay, and Eddie come to terms with the breaks life has given them.

LA FENIX by Susan Tammany
Thurs. 8/21 8p
Fri. 8/22 5pm
Sat. 8/23 8:30p
Trapped between an obsessive cleric and a loving aristocrat, a poet nun fights for the rights of the individual soul and the education of women against the Inquisition in 17th century Mexico.
What happens when an extraordinary woman becomes a nun, advocates the equality of women and meets the Inquisition? Such was the dilemma of Sor Juana de la Cruz. In La Fenix, Sor Juana is loved and protected by a Countess, loved and protected by a priest. Her story is compelling, provocative and passionate.

WOMEN VS. MEN, by various authors.
Friday 8/22 9:30pm
Sat. 8/23 9:30pm
Sun. 8/24 8:30p
An evening of short comedy pieces that pits males against females onstage (and in the audience) in the ultimate battle of the sexes.

SELECTED SCENES FROM ALL PRODUCTIONS
Free event
Friday 8/22 12:30p
Mon. 8/25 12:30p

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