2023 New Play Workshops
Proximity
By Harrison David Rivers
July 8–9 • Ticket Price: $15
Newly divorced and sheltering at home with her two children, Ezra hasn’t been touched by another adult in eight months. When she’s introduced to Irie, a charismatic fellow single parent, at a virtual PTA meeting, their immediate attraction causes Ezra to reconsider the limits of her Covid-bubble.
Cannabis Passover
By Sofya Levitsky-Weitz
July 28–29 • Ticket Price: $15
A somewhat dysfunctional, multi-generational family of Reform Jews congregates at a rented beach house to celebrate Passover, planning to light up more than just the Seder candles. As the generations share stories, debate about social justice issues, and try not to burn the food, they veer off-script from the Haggadah… and strange things begin to reveal themselves. On this night, right now, what does it mean to repair the world?
The Bleeding Class
By Chisa Hutchinson
Aug. 19–20 • Ticket Price: $25
The world is under attack by a deadly plague and Sugar, a Dominican-American escort from the Bronx might just be the key to saving all of humanity. When Sugar visits the reserved Black doctor, Dr. Wesley Pennington, the two are suddenly forced to team up and move into a hastily built research compound owned by a faceless pharmaceutical giant. Power dynamics shift constantly in this highly theatrical allegorical tale, presciently written before the Covid-19 pandemic. The Bleeding Class challenges us to ask ourselves what we are willing to sacrifice, who we are willing to trust, and if we are willing to love.