2020-2021 PLAY LAB
Online/Zoom development of new radio and stage plays during Covid pandemic
Radio
Things Needing Explanation
Written by Julia Fisher
Story dramaturgy by Justin Glanville
Technique dramaturgy by John Watts
Scheduled for recording in partnership with Radio on the Lake Theatre.
Stage
The Mirror Effect
Written by Oana Leuca
Dramaturgy by Lenora Inez Brown
Directed by Christine McBurney
Synopsis: The Mirror Effect presents Amanda Reis, a self-searching female writer who explores her inner life through language and disguise. Her story is inspired by the lives and work of other female artists (Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Anne Sexton, Marylin Monroe, etc.). Her poetic monologue is an astronaut’s shout in space, a place where sound waves can’t travel. She is a clown afraid of clowns, an actress trying to free herself from her persona.
Preliminary Zoom reading November 19, 2020.
Radio
Love and Ecstasy
Written by Gail Nyoka
Story dramaturgy by Justin Glanville
Technique dramaturgy by John Watts
Theme: If the grandmothers fail in their role as storytellers – grandmothers to granddaughters – what happens to the following generations? Must they be always rootless? Do painful ancestral patterns repeat?
Scheduled for recording in partnership with Radio on the Lake Theatre.