Greenbrier Valley Theatre will present six new
ten-minute plays at the New Voices Play Festival at 7:30
p.m. Jan.
18-19 and Jan. 25-26. The event showcases the talents of local playwrights, who
see their works fully realized with director, cast and full production crew.
Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors
and $8 for students. For tickets or information, call 304-645-3838.
Selected from more than 100 works submitted
from across the country, this year's six plays offer a skewed look into human
nature. Of the six plays, three are the work of West Virginia playwrights — two local and one from Huntington.
In Alex Dremann's "Narcoleptic Pillow
Fight," the seven-year itch sends a medically challenged couple headfirst into
a bedtime brawl when a soup ladle, a sister-in-law and two perfectly timed
cases of narcolepsy invade an otherwise normal matrimonial argument. Dremann
hails from Philadelphia. This is his first production with Greenbrier
Valley Theatre. His short plays have seen more than 250 productions.
Jonathan Joy's "Little Donkeys and
Elephants" is a Christmas comedy about two children, Billy and Amy, whose
differing viewpoints on how to celebrate the holiday season lead to spirited
arguments over whose family traditions are more politically correct. Joy is
from Huntington. His works have been performed in nine states, including
stages in New
York City and San Francisco.
"A Game of Twenty . . ." is playwright Eric
Fritzius' attempt to answer the great inscrutable questions of the 20th
century. While waiting in a limbo-esque lobby of the afterlife, a man is told
he may ask twenty questions of the "administrator." This is the fourth of
Fritzius' plays to be produced by GVT.
Seattle playwright Barbara Lindsay has written more than
50 plays. Her dark comedy "On the Line" explores the charged relationship
between an emotionally wrecked girl who is dateless on Valentine's Day and the
judgmental male volunteer working the crisis hotline.
Brett Hursey's comedic 10-minute plays have
been produced in more than 100 theatres across the USA and in five foreign countries. In "Splitting Hares,"
when Ron Jr. leaves for college, his father's psyche takes a "hare-y" turn. Can
Ron Sr. and Annie, with the help of their marriage counselor, sort out their
problems before a made-up condition really sends Ron hopping away?
"Occupy My Mind" is Greenbrier County
native and White Sulphur Springs resident Christian M. Giggenbach's third play
to be produced in GVT's New Voices festivals. In this political comedy, a manic
protest leader begins gathering a ragtag team of activists for his own offshoot
of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Will his boot camp initiation tactics move
his followers to follow in his path or run out the door instead?
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