Next weekend is your LAST CHANCE to catch an artistic trial balloon in our Scripts in Play Festival. And you're invited to join us at the CLOSING NIGHT PARTY Saturday. Read on for all the details...
Thursday, April 21 | 7:30 pm
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Compleat Female Stage Beauty by Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by Kevin Finkelstein
At a time when only actors were allowed on the English stage, London's most celebrated leading lady was a man. But when a maverick actress persuades the king to allow actual women to perform, the star gets huffy and things turn ugly. Hatcher's dishy comedy tells all.
 Jeffrey Hatcher's
original plays include Scotland Road, Fellow Travelers, Sockdology, Turn of the Screw, and Compleat Female Stage Beauty. His adaptations of existing plays for the screen and the stage have garnered recognition with such successes as Stage Beauty (2004), Casanova (2005), and The Duchess (2008).
 Kevin Finkelstein
is Founding Artistic Director of the Federal Theatre Project, Co-Founder of LiveArtDC, Resident Director of Lean & Hungry Theater, and Executive Producer of Frozen Penguin Productions. Last season he directed Avant Bard's special event A Klingon Christmas Carol.
Friday, April 22 | 7:30 pm
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Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Quill Nebeker
Although history remembers her mainly as Voltaire's lover, Emilie du Châtelet was also a scientific genius and one of the 18th century's most original minds. In Gunderson's antic theatrical reconstruction, this resurrected heroine must choose between head and heart, intellect and love.
 Lauren Gunderson is one of the most produced playwrights in America, and winner of the Lanford WIlson Award, Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, and a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Her work has been commissioned, produced, and developed at South Cost Rep (
Emilie, Silent Sky), The Kennedy Center (The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and Her Dog!), The O'Neill, Denver Center, Berkeley Rep, Shotgun Players, TheatreWorks, Crowded Fire, San Francisco Playhouse, Marin Theatre, Synchronicity, Olney Theatre, Geva, and more.
 Quill Nebeker
is a native Arlingtonian. With Avant Bard, he assisted Tom Prewitt on 2013's King John. Quill was a 2014-15 Directing Intern at Forum Theatre, where he assistant-directed The T Party and Passion Play. Quill has directed for the Source Festival's 10-Minute Play Series, Rorschach Theatre's Klecksography, and The Hub Theatre's Emerging Writers Fest.
Saturday, April 23 | 2 pm (MATINEE)
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The 296 Project: Veterans Acting Out
Directed by Tom Prewitt
Former U.S. servicemembers share their experiences of war, homecoming, and reacclimation to civilian life, contrasting them with some of Shakespeare's most powerful depictions of soldiers and their loved ones in his own lifetime.
 The 296 Project
is a Nonprofit Veteran Service Organization. Its mission is to promote, fund, support, and advocate for art and expressive therapies as a means to combat the painful symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress and Traumatic Brain Injury.
 Tom Prewitt,
now in his fourth season as Artistic and Executive Director of Avant Bard, recently staged Holiday Memories
plus the Helen Hayes Award-winning production of Visible Language by Mary Resing. Last season he also directed Othello, named one of the year's best plays by DC Metro Theatre Arts.
Saturday, April 23 | 7:30 pm
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Natasha and the Wolf
by Mary Resing
Workshop directed by Tom Prewitt
History and fiction collide as Resing (author of Helen Hayes Award winner Visible Language) brings to life the creation of Peter and the Wolf. When Soviet-era director Natasha Sats commissions Sergei Prokofiev to compose a symphonic tale for children, little does she know the fable will foretell the turmoil about to knock at her door.
 Mary Resing
is a playwright, director, and dramaturg and the founder of Active Cultures Theatre. Her work has been seen around the country at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Hartford Stage, Ann Arbor Rep, Empty Space, New Dramatists, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth, and Source Theatre Company.
Saturday, April 23 | 9 pm-ish
Closing Night Party
4150 Campbell Avenue, Arlington VA
Come celebrate closing night of Avant Bard's breakout Scripts in Play Festival! The party will begin buzzing right after the final festival event, Natasha and the Wolf. All lovers of adventurous theater are welcome--creative teams and audience members alike. There'll be plenty of appetizers and finger food, and you're welcome to order your own drinks at the bar.
All Scripts in Play Festival events are at
Theatre on the Run
(click for driving directions and easy public-transit info), 3700 South Four Mile Run Drive, Arlington, VA 22206. And all are free for your feedback.
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For full descriptions of all upcoming festival events,
click on the calendar above.
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The
Scripts in Play Festival is your chance to help chart Avant Bard's course for seasons to come. Some of these plays may show up as mainstage productions in the future, so your feedback during the
Scripts in Play Festival is invaluable to us!
We want your feedback!
We want to hear from you!
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