Join us for a night of one-act plays featuring How I Thought the Milonga Would Save Me & Blaspheme by Yasmine Rana and Devil by Nicolas Glossman.
These readings will be held at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Dreyfuss Theatre, 285 Madison Avenue, Madison, NJ. Click here for directions. Click here for a printable map of the campus (the Dreyfuss Theatre is located in Building 9).
Close embraces, open embraces, and embellishments follow three couples through the complicated circle of dance and love in How I Thought the Milonga Would Save Me, while a dance for survival encompasses an interrogation room in Blaspheme.
All tickets are general admission. There will be a talk-back following the reading.
Yasmine's book The War Zone is My Bed and Other Plays was published this year by Seagull Books and University of Chicago Press. Other publications include Blackbird, The Kenyon Review, and TDR The Drama Review. The title play of the book, The War Zone is My Bed was recently produced in Los Angeles at Write Act Repertory Theater.
Want to know more? Check out 5 Questions With Yasmine Rana on our blog
Directed by James Glossman
Blaspheme Cast:
Man - Frank Anderson*
Woman - Prentiss Benjamin*
How I Thought the Milonga Would Save Me Cast:
Man - Frank Anderson*
Woman 1 - Prentiss Benjamin*
Woman 2 - Eilis Cahill*
Woman 3 - Linda Setzer*
Dave, a high school chemistry teacher down on his luck, has just climbed up his own fire escape to sneak into his apartment in order to avoid his landlord, to whom he owes the rent. As he goes to wash up from his urban climb, The Devil enters through his refrigerator, introduces himself, and says that he needs Dave’s help “to save the Human race.” A comedy.
Nicky Glossman’s first full-length play, What About Waldorf?, was performed in workshop at Luna Stage, as was his play The Professional, with casts including Edward Asner & Jay O. Sanders; Legion, about a high-school student organization in crisis, will be performed at Luna in March 2012. He recently co-wrote his first film, and appeared as Tim in Eric Bogosian’s SubUrbia. He appeared at Playwrights in a reading of Orwell in Utica opposite Tony-award-winner Len Cariou. Devil won First Place in Samuel French Inc’s national young playwriting competition, and will be published this fall by Baker’s Plays, a division of Samuel French.
Devil Cast:
Dave - Paul Murphy*
Devil - Frank Anderson*
Stage Directions for both readings - Kristine Kuligowski+
* Members of Actors' Equity Association
+ FDU Student |
