Barebones Staged-Reading Theatre Series:
MY BOOT and THE AMERICAN CENTURY
-FREE EVENT-
-ALCOHOL AVAILABLE-
MY BOOT is the world premiere of pulitzer prize nominee Ron Jones’ 10 minute play offering a perspective on the life of a Nazi soldier, and a Jewish man during the holocaust. Both characters poetically justify their family’s condition upon the eve of WWII.
Cast includes:
- Matt Dentino… Man 1
- Jared Joplin… Man 2
THE AMERICAN CENTURY by Murphy Guyer is a blithely hilarious play starting off as a romantic wartime reunion that turns into the ultimate baby boomer’s nightmare. A young couples’ reunion is interrupted by a mysterious stranger who provides an astonishing window to their future; a scathing indictment of post WWII America.
Cast includes:
- John Scheller… Man
- Lauren Le Roux… Woman
- Mike Dennis… Stranger
Monday May 6th 7:30pm @
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
719 Race St Cincinnati, OH 45202
MY BOOT by Ron Jones (10 minute world premiere)
THE AMERICAN CENTURY by Murphy Guyer
Barebones Staged-Reading Series is a brand new artistic iniative with the mission to give its audience and its artists a considerable amount of exposure to contemporary plays without the baggage of a large budget or excess production hours. In keeping with a conventional “staged-reading” the actors will read directly from the script— where Barebones differs is in its accompaniment with multimedia, and/or music (live & otherwise), to enrich, and enliven the “theatrical” experience of the read— thus enhancing its impact on the audience— without being a full-blown production. Overall, the Barebones approach is meant as an effort to have local audiences and artists exposed to more plays— and to afford busy, local, starving-artists a minimum of prep time, so that the maximum of works can be read. It is the hope of this approach to have two to three plays read a month, to be performed on theater off-nights, such as Mondays and Tuesdays— and to attract the finest local artists to impart the most amount of contemporary plays possible to local audiences, free of charge— plays for gratis.
The Barebones Staged-Reading Theatre Series was awarded with a Jackson Street Market Artist Supper Club grant through the generous support of the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation and The Know Theatre of Cincinnati. The Jackson Street Market Artist Supper Club was an evening full of great food and wonderful community.
Other upcoming readings:
Monday May 20th 7:30pm @
The Carnegie Theatre
1028 Scott Blvd Covington, KY 41011
LOBBY HERO by Kennith Lonergan
Founded by Billy Chace and Jon Kovach
Behind the Curtain Cincinnati 