More than What - by Janet Kenny
A humorous and poignant cycle of short inter-related plays about a wedding, a family and the challenges they present.
Centastage is pleased to present the world premier of More Than What, More Than What is .a cycle of 7 short plays that revolve around the wedding of Jack and Andrea and involve recurring characters from both their lives. Each play is complete by itself, yet quilts together for a humorous and poignant look at weddings, family, love and the challenges they present.
Written by renowned local playwright Janet Kenney, More Than What is a unique and entertaining evening of theater that mixes humor and poignancy to show a moving slice of life that strikes a common human chord.
Fall '06
MONSTERS the musical - by Gail Phaneuf and Ernie Lijoi
For more information - please visit www.monstersthemusical.com
Synopsis: On her 40th birthday, Samantha wakes up to some shocking visitors and has to face the demons of middle age in what unfolds as a hilarious romp of a day. Determined to strike out on an adventure and overhaul her life, Samantha must deflect her mother's warnings amid her mid-life soul searching, and battle a troupe of monsters: Apathy, Fear and Body. Full panic sets in as the monsters take Samantha on a wild ride through her psyche, and a youthful Birthday Singer arrives unannounced, challenging Samantha to banish her demons and live out her dreams. Charged with energetic music and side-splitting lyrics, MONSTERS is a story that captures the universal humor, insight and agony spurred by life’s milestones. In the end, MONSTERS asks: Have you faced your demons? We can’t necessarily destroy them, but we can laugh at them. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “My giant follows me wherever I go.” Indeed.
Ongoing
Right on, Write On!
s you may know, Centastage sponsors a monthly writing group called Write On. Well, we don’t want to brag, but check out these accolades for Write On members:
- Janet Kenney was a winner of the 6th Annual Playwriting Festival in Sonora, CA (the "best breakfast city in the country," says Janet) for her play My Heart & My Flesh.
- The Mark of the Lord, also by Janet, was included in the Sirens 3 festival at HERE in NYC in June and will be included in the Brave New Works festival in Atlanta, GA in February 2003.
- George Sauer’s one-act Crab Legs had a staged reading on 9/28 and 10/13 as part of the Provincetown Theater Company’s Fall Festival.
- In the same festival, Kathleen Rogers’ Ballast was given a full production.
- Kathleen also had her play House/Wife selected for the "Show Off" festival of short plays to be presented by the Camino Real Playhouse in California.
- Uncle Dan: A Catholic Gothic Valentine, written by Joe Byers, is being produced in workshop by the Abingdon Theatre Company in New York this December 12-15 in their brand-new space at 312 West 36th Street - their very first workshop production in the new space!
- Also by Joe, The Woman with No Nose won the Palm Springs National Short Play Fest 2002.
- Patrick Gabridge’s Insomnia has been all over the country recently: in September, it was read at the Herring Run Arts Festival in Middleborough, MA and produced at the Seattle Fringe Festival by Theatre Babylon. It was also produced by the Sauk Theatre in Michigan in May.
- Also, Patrick’s new play, God's Voice, received a developmental workshop with the Lida Project in Denver in April.
- Saul Slapikoff's ten-minute play Mrs. Morrissey was produced July 11-13, 2002 in the Hovey Theater Summer Shorts 2002.
Wow! We could have a whole newsletter devoted to this stuff. Congratulations to all! If you’re interested in learning more about Write On, email Joe Byers at joe.byers@forum.com.
