2018 Conference Event Calendar
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Tuesday, July 17
5:00pm – The Garbologists by Lindsay Joelle
8:00pm – Tha Chink-Mart by Ray Yamanouchi
Wednesday, July 18
5:00pm – Bruise & Thorn by J. Julian Christopher
8:00pm – You, the Fire, and Me by Sevan K. Greene
Thursday, July 19
5:00pm – Kids Drop (Off) by Dominic Taylor
8:00pm – Dimenticar by Mattie J. Hawkinson
Monday, July 23
7:30pm – Foundry Reading: Down in the Holler by Val Dunn (additional reading)
Tuesday, July 24
7:30pm – Joan by Stephen Belber (additional reading)
Thursday, July 26
8:00pm – The Garbologists by Lindsay Joelle
Friday, July 27
8:00pm – Tha Chink-Mart by Ray Yamanouchi
Saturday, July 28
2:00pm – Intern Playwright Ten-Minute Plays
4:00pm – You, the Fire, and Me by Sevan K. Greene
8:00pm – Bruise & Thorn by J. Julian Christopher
Sunday, July 29
2:00pm – Dimenticar by Mattie J. Hawkinson
5:00pm – Kids Drop (Off) by Dominic Taylor
Events by Play

Bruise & Thorn
by J. Julian Christopher
Wednesday, July 18th – 5:00pm
Saturday, July 28th – 8:00pm
Bruise and Thorn work at a busted-up old laundromat in Jamaica, Queens. Bruise dreams of becoming a chef. Thorn dreams of changing the face of Hip Hop with his unabashed Queerness. When finances become strained, they get caught up in an illegal cockfighting ring led by their boss, Mrs. Gallo, sending them on a magical ride to make their dreams come true and get the hell out of Jamaica. Bruise & Thorn is an authentic look at a Nuyorican street family, not through bloodline, but rather the social and economic indicators that naturally selects them to one another.

You, the Fire, and Me
by Sevan K. Greene
Wednesday, July 18th – 8:00pm
Saturday, July 28th – 4:00pm
Tommy, Jules, and Omer are tired of their worlds, their countries, their governments, and their families. They’re tired of being invisible. They’re tired of being disenfranchised. They’re tired of being no one. They’ve found a supportive family with one another and found the solution to their problems: Joining a terrorist organization. A coming-of-age story for a new generation, You, the Fire, and Me asks how far you would go to have your voice heard and to finally be seen as someone rather than just anyone.

Dimenticar
by Maddie J. Hawkinson
Thursday, July 19 – 8:00pm
Saturday, July 29 – 2:00pm
A loving father of three daughters has gone missing on his way to work. His car is found at the bottom of the river and the circumstances of his death don’t add up. The local police think he ran away, but nobody knows why. People crack under pressure all the time, but sometimes they do it in the most remarkable ways. This play asks, “Why would you ever leave your family? And if you did dare to leave home, what would bring you back again?”

The Garbologists
by Lindsay Joelle
Tuesday, July 17 – 5:00pm
Thursday, July 26 – 8:00pm
Danny’s a white, conservative, proud union member of the DSNY. Marlowe’s the Black, liberal, ivy-educated newbie who just joined his sanitation route. When they find something on the curb too valuable to throw away, they’ll be forced to reevaluate in each other what they mistook for trash.

Kids Drop (Off)
by Dominic Taylor
Thursday, July 19th – 5:00pm
Sunday, July 29th – 5:00pm
A group of parents have a collective “staycation” while their first graders are on a field trip. They get together because all parents need a moment of tension release. This day of relief is broken when Ado, the mother of a child that died a month ago, arrives. This play asks; how we can take care of ourselves and each other at the same time?

Tha Chink-Mart
by Ray Yamanouchi
Tuesday, July 17th – 8:00pm
Friday, July 27th – 8:00pm
In a small, suburban town in Long Island, New York, five Asian American teenage friends battle through high school—where they’re marked as Asians—and their ethnic home fronts—where they’re too American. Finding solace only among each other, they attempt to define for themselves what it means to be an Asian in America… for better or for worse.

Additional Reading: Joan
by Stephen Belber
Tuesday, July 24 – 7:30pm
Joan is a play about the entire life of a woman named Joan.

Foundry Reading: Down in the Holler
by Val Dunn
Monday, July 23 – 7:30pm
Deep in a holler of the Shenandoah Valley, Juniper prepares to spend a perfect life in a perfect cabin with her perfect partner, Blake. Until Maeve appears. Telling tall tales and crooning high lonesomes, Maeve beguiles Juniper return to Gin – a past self who once lived and loved in this here house. As Juniper attempts to exorcise her pursuit of passion and maintain the stable life she’s created with Blake, Down in the Holler witnesses a collision of class and queerness, ultimately asking how we reconcile who we were and who we thought we would become.

Intern Playwright Ten-Minute Plays
Saturday, July 28 – 2:00pm
Celebrate our six Conference interns as they share plays they’ve created under the tutelage of PlayPenn’s Education Director.