DO MORE.
VIRTUAL PLAY READINGS
A BENEFIT SERIES to raise funds and awareness for the #BlackLivesMatter movement and organizations fighting for equity and justice.
Do More
BEDLAM
presents
DO MORE.
A Benefit Reading Series
for #BlackLivesMatter
On Tuesday June 9th 2020, BEDLAM launched a bimonthly Reading Series in an effort to raise funds and awareness for the #BLACKLIVESMATTER movement and associated organizations working toward eliminating race-based discrimination. We have pledged that all proceeds will go directly toward these efforts.
$25,124 RAISED… AND COUNTING!
2020 CALENDAR
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The tragedy of Richard II
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Zachary Elkind
Tuesday, June 9th, 2020
6:30pm EST: Music
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
NATIONAL BAIL FUND NETWORK (RAISED $3220)
(RAISED $3220)
Shakespeare’s most intimate history play charts Richard II’s growth into maturity and poetry as he loses everything.
Cast: EDMUND LEWIS, PAUL LAZAR, RYAN QUINN, SHIRINE BABB, LISA BIRNBAUM, AUNDRIA BROWN, JOHN TERRY, GALEN MOLK, CAROLINE GROGAN, VIOLETA PICAYO, SIMON SCHAITKIN
LOCATION: ZOOM & Facebook Live
The Long Christmas Ride Home
Written by Paula Vogel
Directed by Violeta Picayo
Benefit Reading to support:
THE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT
(RAISED $2935)
Paula Vogel breaks open the American family play in this fractured, beautiful exploration of a family of five in crisis.
Cast: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Kathryn Tkel, Katie Hartke, Tramell Tillman, Maggie Adams McDowell, EDMUND LEWIS
LOCATION: ZOOM & Facebook Live
Entertaining Mr. Sloane
Written by Joe Orton
Directed by Annabel Capper
Benefit Reading to support:
Equal Justice Initiative
(RAISED $1890)
Comedy is the greasy underbelly of psychopathy in Joe Orton’s sexy, biting satire of middle-class England in the swinging ‘60s.
Cast: Nigel Gore, Annabel Capper, Dan Amboyer, Maurice Jones
LOCATION: ZOOM & Facebook Live
Coriolanus
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Nathan Malin
Tuesday, July 21st, 2020
6:30pm EST: Music by Doug Waterman
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
(RAISED $2432)
Shakespeare’s rarely-seen Roman history is a taut, brutal reminder that a society founded on war can never be at peace with itself.
Cast: Tina Packer, Vasile Flutur, David Keohane, Arash Moktar, Khadija Bangoura, Paul Lazar, Maurice Parent, Nigel Gore, Julia Ty Goldberg
LOCATION: ZOOM & Facebook Live
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Don Juan in Hell
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Randolph Curtis Rand
RESCHEDULED: THURSDAY, August 27, 2020
6:30pm EST: Music by Joshua Fried (RADIO WONDERLAND LIVE)
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
Southern Poverty Law Center
(RAISED $2165)
Bedlam loves George Bernard Shaw, and this one-act — originally Act III of Shaw’s “Man and Superman” — is Shaw at his purest: his gift for language and comedy never fails, even in Hell.
Cast: LISA WOLPE, RANDOLPH CURTIS RAND, SHIRINE BABB, ERIC TUCKER
LOCATION: ZOOM & Facebook Live
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China Dreams or The Conservation of Parity
Written by Stefani Kuo
Directed by Nicholas Polonio
Benefit Reading to support:
INTEGRATE NYC
(RAISED $380)
This stunning new play from Stefani Kuo traces the life of Wu Chien-Shiung, an overlooked Chinese-American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, in the first new play in our reading series.
Cast: Cricket Brown, Ethan Luk, Joel Rueben Ganz, Wai Ching Ho, Woody Fu, FANG DU
LOCATION: ZOOM & Facebook Live
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MACBETH
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Ryan Quinn
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
6:30pm EST: Music by John Taney
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
BLACK WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS
(RAISED $1630)
Cast: joe tapper, shirine babb, truett felt, nigel gore, rajesh bose
LOCATION: ZOOM & Facebook Live
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ROMEO & JULIET
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Eric Tucker
Benefit Reading to support:
COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR POLICE REFORM
(RAISED $1420)
Cast: NIGEL GORE & TINA PACKER AS ROMEO & JULIET
WITH ALLYN Burrows, ANNABEL CAPPER, CHARLS HALL, SPENCER ASTE, ALAN ALTSCHULER, DRIA BROWN, MIKE LABBADIA, SAMANTHIA NIXON, NATHAN MALIN, JAMIE SMITHSON, TED LEWIS, AND RANDOLPH CURTIS RAND
LOCATION: ZOOM & Facebook Live
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HEDDA GABLER
Written by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Zachary Elkind
Tuesday, September 29th, 2020
6:30pm EST: Music by Constant Strangers — Chris Peters and Mary Bolt
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
ARTISTS STRIVING TO END POVERTY
(RAISED $3620)
A woman at war with society’s expectations, Hedda Gabler refuses to play by anyone else’s rules in Henrik Ibsen’s revolutionary play.
Cast: Shirine Babb, JOÉL PÉREZ, RAJESH BOSE, RACHEL BOTCHAN, CHRIS MURRAH, IONE WANG
LOCATION: ZOOM & Facebook Live
PAST: SIGN UP CLOSED
The price
Written by Arthur Miller
Directed by Annabel Capper
Tuesday, October 13th, 2020
6:30pm EST: “New York” by Annabel Capper
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
THE OKRA PROJECT
(RAISED $991)
Arthur Miller’s dramatic two-act piece about family dynamics, the price of furniture, and the price of one’s decisions.
Cast: Annabel Capper, Rajesh Bose, Arash Mokhtar, Michael Twaine
LOCATION: ZOOM & Facebook Live
PAST: SIGN UP CLOSED
the bear and other stories
THREE ONE-ACT PLAYS
By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Nathan Malin
Tuesday, October 27th, 2020
6:30pm EST: Music by Quinlan Fitzgerald
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
PRINCESS JANAE PLACE
(RAISED $940)
Cast: Ashley bufkin, michael hammond, tramell tillman
LOCATION: ZOOM & Facebook Live
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The machine stops
Written by E.M. Forster
Adapted & Directed by David Keohane
Tuesday, November 10th, 2020
6:30pm EST: LIVE MUSIC by Olive Fine with visuals by Eliza Fichter
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
Climate Justice Alliance
(RAISED $1290)
and campaign zero
(RAISED $393)
Director David Keohane presents his original adaptation of E.M. Forster’s short story: a science-fiction dystopia with an uncomfortable resemblance to our own world.
CAST: ZUZANNA SZADKOWSKI, AWESTA ZARIF, MIGUEL LONG
LOCATION: ZOOM & Facebook Live
Titus Andronicus
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Randolph Curtis Rand
Tuesday, November 24th, 2020
6:30pm EST: LIVE MUSIC by Eric Powell Holm
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
THE INNOCENCE PROJECT (raised $1233)
Shakespeare’s goriest play verges into horror-movie territory as it traces the way violence corrodes an entire society, until no one is untouched.
Cast: Rajesh Bose, Ted Lewis, Caroline Grogan, EQUIANO MORIESI, GEORGE OLESKY, David Keohane, Rakeem Lawrence, Adam Paterson, Mary Neufeld, Lyndsey Anderson, Kelly Klein, Lucius Robinson, NATHAN MALIN
LOCATION: ZOOM & Facebook Live
THREE SISTERS
Written by Anton Chekhov
Directed by Violeta Picayo
Tuesday, december 8th, 2020
6:30pm EST: Music
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
BLACK THEATRE NETWORK
Cast: TBA
LOCATION: ZOOM & Facebook Live
The importance of being earnest
Written by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Annabel Capper
Tuesday, december 22nd, 2020
6:30pm EST: Music
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
