PANEL DISCUSSIONS READINGS SPECIAL EVENTS

NOVEMBER 3 - 6, 2011

PLAYFEST!the harriett lake festival of new plays

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SPECIAL GUESTJEFFREY HATCHERSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5 AT 7:00 P.M.MARGESON THEATERThis year, Jeffrey Hatcher, author of The Turn of the Screw, visits PlayFest! Join us for his Keynote Address, “What the Audience Knows,” which focuses on the information, prejudices and expectations audiences bring to the theater and to new plays. This event will be followed by a reading of his new work, Strongman’s Ghost.

PLAY-IN-A-DAY LOTTERYWEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 AT 6:00 P.M.DARDEN COURTYARDPlay selection for Play-in-a-Day.

PLAY-IN-A-DAY A FUN-RAISER!

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3 AT 7:00 P.M. ($10) MARGESON THEATER20 actors, 7 writers, 7 directors and a team of crew members donate their time and talents to write, direct, rehearse, run the technical aspects and perform 6 original 10-minute plays within a 24-hour time frame. 90 mins.

PLAYFEST OPENING PARTYTHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3 AT 9:00 P.M.HARRIETT’S BARCash bar with happy hour prices($2 beer, $3 wine) and free appetizers.

FRINGE 101SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5 AT 5:00 P.M. ($20)PATRON’S ROOMHow to Fringe with former Orlando Fringe Artistic Director, Beth Marshall.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5 AT 7:00 P.M.MARGESON THEATER

PLAYWRIGHT’S PANELSUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6 AT 2:00 P.M.MANDELL THEATERWhat’s a Playwright Gotta Doto Make a Living?

CLOSING PARTYSUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6 AT 9:00 P.M.DARDEN COURTYARD

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THE ODYSSEYBy Charlie BethelFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4 AT 6:00 P.M. Shipwrecks, cyclopses, sirens and sex goddesses; cannibalism, death, loyalty and revenge. Solo artist Charlie Bethel unpacks it all for you in this retelling of Homer’s epic tale of a crafty hero trying to get home and the circumstances that stretch him to his limit. 75 mins.

SAMSARABy Lauren YeeSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5 AT 11:00 A.M. When American couple Katie and Craig vow to make a last-ditch effort to have a baby of their own, their quest leads them to India, where a thriving commercial surrogacy industry offers them a final chance at parenthood. A hilarious, unsettling look at reproduction in the 21st Century. 90 mins.

All readings located in the Mandell Theater. Schedule subject to change.

SMOKEBy Gloria Bond ClunieSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5 AT 2:00 P.M. Country storeowner Ora Rakestraw wants no parts of the mysterious Wallace Johnson when he descends upon Manson, North Carolina to organize tobacco workers. The government declares cigarettes deadly. Things get hot when love and small town politics clash! 100 mins.

STRONGMAN’S GHOSTBy Jeffrey HatcherSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5 AT 8:00 P.M. The General is a dictator of a small foreign country. He moonlights as a novelist. Everyone loves his books. They have to. He’s the dictator. But he doesn’t have time to do the actual writing anymore. For that he has ghostwriters. His soldiers have just brought him a new one. His assignment: finish the General’s final book before the country is invaded by a nation very much like the U.S. 90 mins.

ZOMBIE TOWNBy Tim BauerSUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6 AT 11:00 A.M. When a horde of zombies overruns the small West Texas town of Harwood, the townsfolk assume the worst has already happened. But then a San Francisco Theater collective arrives, determined to tell the town’s story. The resulting play, assembled from interviews and told in the townsfolk’s exact words, is the true recounting of that terrible invasion. 70 mins.

THE INVENTION OFTHE LIVING ROOMBy Andrew R. HeinzeSUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6 AT 4:00 P.M. It’s 1946. An apartment on the Lower East Side of New York City. Bessie Levin, an emotionally fragile yet dynamic woman, is haunted by the past but about to be hurled into the future. Bessie wants to keep her home unchanged and her racially mixed, religiously divided family together. Her son, Billy, is preparing to launch Levinstown, the first big postwar suburb, which he calls “the future of America.” But will the Levins survive Levinstown? And will Bessie survive the future? 100 mins.

FEVERISHBy Steve YockeySUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6 AT 7:00 P.M.Feverish is a retelling of Phaedra and Hippolytus through a modern lens. The play fuses myth and modern ideas into a bold, vivid world of heightened realism, status games and unrequited lust. And sheds a whole new light on the “complex” love between a mother and a son. 90 mins.

GOD OF CARNAGEBy Yasmina RezaOCTOBER 12 - NOVEMBER 13, 2011 ($15-38)This 75-minute thrill ride takes you into the most dangerous place on earth: parenthood. A civilized discussion over a playground fight becomes a finger-pointing, fur-flying, hilarious brawl between two couples in this savagely caustic comedy, which nabbed the 2009 Tony Award for Best Play. Content Advisory: God of Carnage contains strong adult language and mature themes. Recommended for adult audiences and older teenagers.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2Play-in-a-Day Lottery 6:00 p.m.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3Play-in-a-Day 7:00 p.m.God of Carnage 7:00 p.m.PlayFest Opening Party 9:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4The Odyssey 6:00 p.m.God of Carnage 8:00 p.m.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5Samsara 11:00 a.m.Smoke 2:00 p.m.Fringe 101: How to Fringe 5:00 p.m.Keynote Address: Jeffrey Hatcher 7:00 p.m.Strongman’s Ghost 8:00 p.m.God of Carnage 8:00 p.m.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6Zombie Town 11:00 a.m.Playwright’s Panel 2:00 p.m.God of Carnage 2:00 p.m.The Invention of the Living Room 4:00 p.m.Feverish 7:00 p.m.Closing Party 9:00 p.m.

ONLY $28!A no-frills approach to PlayFest, the Festival Pass enables you to see all seven PlayFest readings. A fantastic bargain!

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