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Grief Dialogues: The Play Debut

Elizabeth Coplan, Artistic Director of the Grief Dialogues project, has curated this set of six well-crafted 10 minute plays for this evenings play reading. All plays were directed by Wesley Fruge. Interspersed among the plays were poems by Jennifer Coates, Kristin Bryant, and Terry Severhill. A post show song, “Move On,” performed by Carla Rose Fisher accompanied on guitar by her husband Thomas Fisher, followed by Q & A with the audience rounded out the evening.

The value of workshop productions to writers. A new play grows into its final status

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The trouble with an emotional life in the new play Much Better

We all have some parts of our personality that we would like to improve upon or possibly even change. Much Better, set in the future takes this human desire for self-improvement to another level. Unlike in our current times where personality alteration is achieved via drug regimes, Frankel’s play explores the possibility of more permanently altering one’s personality via brain changes. The brain changing treatment is called Neuroclear. Like the name suggests, the treatment doesn’t just mask any undesirable personality traits, the treatment erases them. As Dr. Keith explains to the main character Ashley, the treatment is like “plastic surgery for the personality.”

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Enroll in “Nite Skool” with The Libertinis at Annex Theatre

The Libertinis’ “Nite Skool,” performed at the Annex Theatre, is a hilarious, raunchy comedy show with a social conscience. It takes on the aesthetic of the after-school-special era of teen sitcoms, but the subjects it tackles are anything but dated. “Nite Skool” aims to both make you laugh and challenge widely-held beliefs perpetuated by schools, and it usually succeeds.

“Nite Skool,” written by Max Kirchner and the ensemble, opens with a woman realizing she is unprepared for the realities of adult life. She decides to go to Nite Skool [sic] to “fill her knowledge holes.” The show takes us through a school day (night?), using each “class” to tackle a social issue and/or tell jokes that would have definitely gotten you sent out in the hallway…

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