When: Sunday-Thursday, March 17-21, 2024 (details and schedule for specific plays below)
Where: McCormick Hall, 4465 Poling Boulevard, Green Cove Springs, FL 32043 (McCormick Hall is the fellowship hall in Penney Memorial Church. It is actually in the Town of Penney Farms, but if you use GPS or mapping apps, it is listed as Green Cove. Please use the entrance to the rear of the church on Caroline Boulevard.)
Admission: Free.
Reservations: Required (due to limited seating). If you would like to make reservations prior to the appearance of the reservation link, please email [email protected], or call 917-902-7210.
Playwrights from all over the country.
Five developmental readings of their works-in-progress! A different play each evening!
Please note: If we have more than 2 events available for reservations at one time, you may not see all of them when you first click the red “Reservations” toggle. Just click in the white space between two events to force the widget to expand and display all available events.
For questions or assistance, please email [email protected] (and please tell us which play you are asking about or trying to reserve).
SUNDAY, MAR 17, 7 PM EASTERN – “Lived Experience” by Amy Tofte
(dramaturg: Suzi Elnaggar)
When an android falls in love with her human co-worker, she must learn difficult human nuances such as love vs. lust and support vs. control. Each interaction pushes the constantly learning android to create a shared trauma that binds her as close as possible to her human companion. Is there an algorithm for love? Is love even real? Or is it merely an agreed upon delusion between consenting sentient beings?
with Catie Casey, Danielle Dobies, Riley Fetzner, and Morrigan Lee
MONDAY, MAR 18, 7 PM EASTERN – “Girl on a Hill” by Cris Eli Blak
(dramaturg: Linda Lombardi)
Deana Wakefield is an African American woman living out of a motel with her musician-boyfriend, struggling with a substance use disorder. Her life takes an unexpected turn when a journalist from The New York Times shows up at her door after he uncovers who she really is: a former child math prodigy. This is a play about race, discrimination, addiction, friendship, shame, generational trauma, and how no matter what we are, or who we are, we have a story to tell and a life that’s worth living.
with Jasmine Chanae, Debbie Pascoe, Bailey Paulson, Clayton Riddley, and Jack Shaughnessy
TUESDAY, MAR 19, 7 PM EASTERN – “The Practice Room” by Aly Kantor
(dramaturg: Kae Milne Twichell)
Julissa is the second chair violist. Giselle is the third chair cellist. Up until now, both college students have accepted the role of the system in determining their fates. When Julissa decides to take a risk and switch instruments, however, the rules begin to change, setting Giselle on a quest to retain her hard-earned position at any cost. “The Practice Room” is a play about power, friendship, and what young female artists deserve.
with Kaylee Byers, Samantha Pascoe, and Harolyn Sharpe
WEDNESDAY, MAR 20, 7 PM EASTERN – “Glory to the Father” by Pamela Morgan
(dramaturg: Lindsey R. Barr)
Rachel Allbright, an emerging playwright in her mid-40s, is offered the opportunity to stage a scene from her life in “Glory to the Father,” a meta-psychodrama about childhood trauma, overbearing religion, and complicated family relationships. Rachel struggles to write and revise a prodigal reunion between her mother, Mary, and her sibling, Beck, at her father’s deathbed. And as the scene unfolds, again and again, Rachel finds her characters refusing to do as they’re told and forcing her to process a past that she never prepared for.
with Jayme Hillyer, Brian Johnson, Meganne Johnson, Bailey Paulson, and Kerry Reardon
THURSDAY, Mar 21, 7 PM EASTERN – “small quiet good” by Chandler Hubbard
(dramaturg: Fiona Kyle)
The myth, the monster, the woman: Medusa. She’s been confined to Hell for thousands of years. Today, her sisters and fellow Gorgons come to rescue her, but the chains binding Medusa can only be broken by the prisoner herself. It’s a reckoning and a retribution; it’s a bildungsroman and a beheading.
with Cher Davis, Karen Konzen, Sinda Nichols, and Toni Lang Philips