DO MORE NEW PLAYS 2024
Now in its fourth year, Bedlam’s DO MORE: NEW PLAYS readings series returns with five thrilling new pieces of theater. Curated by Associate Artistic Director Zachary Elkind, DO MORE: NEW PLAYS has developed work by writers including Zora Howard, Julian Hornik, Emily Gardner Xu Hall, Stefani Kuo, Eleanor Burgess, a.k. payne, Zack Fine, Emily Breeze, Rachel Vail, Daniel K. Isaac, Adrienne Dawes, and Bailey Williams, as well as Talene Monahon‘s THE GOOD JOHN PROCTOR and Zuzanna Szadkowski and Deb Knox‘s FALL RIVER FISHING, both of which were ultimately produced in Bedlam’s Spring 2023 season. Bedlam is proud to create a home for the messy, necessary work of creating the next generation of classic plays.
THIS IS WHAT THE DAYS ARE
by Madison Fiedler
directed by Francesca Sabel
March 25, 7pm
THIS IS WHAT THE DAYS ARE follows a back-to-the-land community of grievers as they plant perennials and slaughter pigs and face the task of living as the left-behind.
Cast includes Moe Angelos, John Behlmann, Kayli Carter, Peter Francis James, Deidre Staples, Nicole Villamil
Original casting by Claire Yenson
TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
by Renae Simone Jarrett
directed by Kate Whoriskey
April 29, 7pm
SUPPOSED HOME
by Sam Hamashima
May 6, 7pm
Shiyoko left the Japanese American Concentration Camps a long time ago, but a part of her stays in the desert. With questions from a curious grandson, Shiyoko’s world becomes split into dueling realities of truth, fiction, anime, and realism. Past and present become one landscape in this epic as enemies are revealed, companions are found, trauma is unpacked, and what was only thought becomes (un)spoken word. A poetic impression from the grandchild of the imprisoned, SUPPOSED HOME brings a new piece of the puzzle that is the Japanese American experience.
WHORE AND WIFE
by Emily Breeze
directed by Zachary Elkind
May 12, 4pm
WHORE AND WIFE is a high-camp farce about a brothel on the brink in 1802 in Dendermonde, Flanders. Hijinks, bodily horrors, and hilarity ensue.
DIARY OF WAR
Diaries collected by Daria Kolomiecdirected by Zuzanna Szadkowski
featuring the Veterans of Bedlam Outreach and Bedlam company members
June 2, 4pm
Diaries collected by Daria Kolomiec
A collection of first-hand accounts of the invasion in Ukraine from people across the country and from different walks of life, performed by the members of Bedlam’s Veterans Outreach program along with Bedlam company members.
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