Join PlayPenn @ Plays and Players in the 3rd Floor Skinner Studio for a series of free work in progress readings by current members of The Foundry. Quig’s will be open before, during, and after each reading. No reservations needed.
My Grandma Said It Was Gonna Rain
by Stephanie Kyung Sun Walters
When:
June 25, 2019
Time: 7pm
Where:
Upstairs at Plays and Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey Place, Philadelphia, PA
Battman and Jesus
When:
July 9, 2019
Time: 7pm
Where:
Upstairs at Plays and Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey Place, Philadelphia, PA
Cholley Johnson joined the army to escape the trauma of his preacher father only to be discharged from the Vietnam war and forced to confront his past.
Stray Cats and Pecan Pie
When:
July 23, 2019
Time: 7pm
Where:
Upstairs at Plays and Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey Place, Philadelphia, PA
Olivia, a college freshman, is “super excited” to find her birth mother, Darlene, who is significantly less enthralled. When Olivia pushes Darlene for information about her birth father, Darlene reluctantly reveals far more than Olivia expects. Can these two find their way to acceptance?
Better to Have Never Been
When:
July 30, 2019
Time: 7pm
Where:
Upstairs at Plays and Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey Place, Philadelphia, PA
Based on anti-natalist philosopher David Benatar’s book of a nearly identical title, this new work is about the question of whether living brings each of us a far greater pain than we even know, and whether it is even “worth it” to ask such questions. Better to Have Never Been is about the infant babies and old-age babies, and how we gauge the quality of what happens in between.
