Online Benefit Reading Series launched 2020
Bedlam’s DO MORE Series was launched in 2020 in an effort to raise funds and awareness for the #BLACKLIVESMATTER movement and associated organizations working toward eliminating race-based discrimination. Thanks to the generous support of the HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION, Bedlam is continuing the series within our NEW WRITING series.
SEE NEW WRITING For upcoming DO MORE readings
based on a short story by DOROTHY PARKER
adapted and performed by ZUZANNA SZADKOWSKI
Benefit Reading to support:
($330 RAISED)
A solo performance going down the rabbit hole of memory and performance.
written by LEO TOLSTOY
adapted by BEASIE GODDU & ZACHARY ELKIND
from the translation by CONSTANCE GARNETT
Benefit Reading to support:
($1636 RAISED)
Tolstoy’s tragedy performed live from bedrooms across the city.
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Zachary Elkind
6:30pm EST: Music
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
(RAISED $3220)
Shakespeare’s most intimate history play charts Richard II’s growth into maturity and poetry as he loses everything.
Written by Paula Vogel
Directed by Violeta Picayo
Benefit Reading to support:
(RAISED $2935)
Paula Vogel breaks open the American family play in this fractured, beautiful exploration of a family of five in crisis.
Written by Joe Orton
Directed by Annabel Capper
Benefit Reading to support:
(RAISED $2015)
Comedy is the greasy underbelly of psychopathy in Joe Orton’s sexy, biting satire of middle-class England in the swinging ‘60s.
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Nathan Malin
6:30pm EST: Music by Doug Waterman
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
(RAISED $2557)
Shakespeare’s rarely-seen Roman history is a taut, brutal reminder that a society founded on war can never be at peace with itself.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Randolph Curtis Rand
6:30pm EST: Music by Joshua Fried (RADIO WONDERLAND LIVE)
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
(RAISED $2225)
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.
Written by Stefani Kuo
Directed by Nicholas Polonio
Benefit Reading to support:
(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.
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Ryan Quinn
6:30pm EST: Music by John Taney
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
(RAISED $1630)
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Eric Tucker
Benefit Reading to support:
(RAISED $1420)
Written by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Zachary Elkind
6:30pm EST: Music: Constant Strangers: Chris Peters and Mary Bolt
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
(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.
Written by Arthur Miller
Directed by Annabel Capper
6:30pm EST: “New York” by Annabel Capper
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
(RAISED $991)
Arthur Miller’s dramatic two-act piece about family dynamics, the price of furniture, and the price of one’s decisions.
THREE ONE-ACT PLAYS
By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Nathan Malin
6:30pm EST: Music by Quinlan Fitzgerald
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
(RAISED $975)
Written by E.M. Forster
Adapted & Directed by David Keohane
6:30pm EST: LIVE MUSIC by Olive Fine with visuals by Eliza Fichter
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
(RAISED $393)
(RAISED $393)
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Randolph Curtis Rand
6:30pm EST: LIVE MUSIC by Eric Powell Holm
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
(RAISED $1483)
Written by Anton Chekhov
Directed & adapted by Violeta Picayo
6:30pm EST: Live music by Kenyon Duncan
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
(RAISED $955)
Written by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Annabel Capper
6:30pm EST: Music
7:00pm EST: Reading
Benefit Reading to support:
(RAISED $905)
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