Love, Science, and Magic:
New Plays from Emerging Playwrights
February 14, 15 at 7.00 PM
FLACCID: Grayson May (Playwright/Director); Rabiah Rowther (Assistant Director); Justin Schulsohn (Actor-"Doctor"); Parker Jenkins (Actor-"Husband"); Amanda Sten (Actor-"Wife")
WHAT WE CHOOSE TO BREATHE: Parker Jenkins (Playwright/Director); Lindsey Alterman (Assistant Director/Dramaturg); Grace Sword (Actor-"Carie"); Maeve O'Connor (Actor-"Martha"); Jesse Kinstler (Actor-"Austin"); Alexa Rose Passante (Swing)
BABY'S FIRST EXISTENTIAL CRISIS: Stephen Fruchtman (Playwright); Lauren Shields (Director); Donovan Fowler (Actor-"Baby"); Kelechi Udenkwo (Actor-"Father"); Spencer Martinez (Actor-"Mother"); DaShaun Williams (Actor-"Photographer")
DELIBERATE DESTRUCTION: Monica Cancian (Playwright); Lauren Shields (Director); Jacquie Bonnet (Actor-"Sapphire"); Isaiah Aldridge (Actor-"Peyton")
CHILDREN OF GAIA: Oliver Keyhani (Playwright); David Hughes (Director); Grayson May (Actor-"Girl"/"Boy")
QUEEN IN THE KEY OF D: Jake Mierva (Playwright); Zakk Ottmers (Director); Cameron Eastland (Actor-"Teddy"); Nicole Stewart (Actor-"May")
TECH Grayson May (Artistic Director) Rabiah Rowther (Stage Manager) Parker Jenkins (Lighting Designer) Amanda Sten (Costume Designer)
Love, Science and Magic: New Plays from Emerging Playwrights is a one-act festival showcasing six new one-act plays written by six emerging playwrights.
“Flaccid" shows the Great Doctor aiming to get to the subliminal root of a husband and wife’s grilled cheese-related trauma.
“What We Choose to Breathe” centers on three young souls smoking on a Manhattan rooftop and attempting to find an escape from the unrelenting weight of the mechanics of our society.
"Baby's First Existential Crisis" follows Baby, who won't stop crying at the photo studio, while Mother, Father and the Photographer struggle to figure it out--despite Baby's best efforts to explain it to them.
‘’Deliberate Destruction’’ is a heated debate between a father and daughter, the latter believing her father is responsible for her mother's and sister's deaths.
“Children of Gaia” is a poetic and mythic work that retells the story of the first Cyclopes, who are abandoned by their parents and left to survive on their love for one another.
“Queen in the Key of D” is a romantic comedy about a man who has his entire proposal all planned out: Go to a karaoke bar, sing “Under Pressure”, then propose..the only problem being that the karaoke bar doesn’t have that song.
These plays are diverse in style and content, ranging from experimental and mythic to comedic and humanistic. However, all of them ruminate somehow on the holy triad: love, science and magic—which we believe exist at the cornerstone of human experience.
***CONTENT WARNINGS: Freudian slips, smoking and marijuana, suicide and suicidal ideation, death, family violence, existential torment, implications of incest, and abandonment***
*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to display proof of two doses of an approved covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks while indoors at all times.