Page on the Stage
The Outrageous New Play Workshop Series
Final Week
The final week of Beowulf Alley Theatre’s Page on the Stage: The Outrageous New Play Festival Series is fast approaching! The theatre is located at 11 S. 6th Avenue, just off-Boardway in Downtown Tucson.
Audiences and critics who have enjoyed the rotation of each of these three plays have praised the quality of the scripts, the acting, and the directing.
"What a terrific idea for a summer activity - and it's worth every penny!"
- Audience Member, Opening Night of The First Third
“The productions are complete. Though the stage sets are minimal, the actors are well-rehearsed and the ideas presented in all three are worth talking about afterward.”
Chuck Graham’s Let the Show Begin
Beowulf Alley is by far the most prolific theatre in town … As a community as a whole we are lacking this new play element … So Beowulf's summer new play projects are an alert, a signal.
David Greenwood’s Theatre Tucson Blog
From Wednesday to Sunday evenings with matinees on Saturdays and Sundays, from July 14 to July 18, words are the focus and the audience is the judge. Each play is completely staged with costumes, sound, lighting and props with the exception of a black box set to facilitative the changeover at each performance of these three very diverse pieces and to allow for more focus on the story itself.
The play presentation dates and times are listed on our Page on the Stage website, and included below.
Advanced tickets for a single play presentation are $12 or buy the series of three plays for $30 and may be purchased online or by phone at (520) 882-0555. At the door, general tickets are $15 each. There is a student/military rush ticket (ID required) price of $10 Cash (no debit or credit cards) 15 minutes before curtain.
You’ll have the opportunity to see one play or all three and could even achieve that in a single weekend. And, just for fun, you can support your favorite plays in our “Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is,”fun-draiser to help us develop seed money for next year’s Play on the Stage program.
Who knows? We might even discover a play this summer to fully mount at the end of our 2010-2011 subscription season. Anything can happen!
Play #1, The First Third by John Vornholt, directed by Dave Sewell:
On December 1, 1969, at the height of the Vietnam War, the Selective Service held a nationwide draft lottery on prime-time TV in an attempt to make the draft more fair. Almost all deferments were canceled, and every able-bodied man between the ages of 19 and 26 faced a certainty of being drafted to go Vietnam if his birthday fell in the First Third of the capsules drawn. On this fateful night, we join five college seniors as their lives and futures are determined by a TV game show, hosted by retiring General William B. Hershey.
The cast includes: Ryan Amstutz, Sukhdan Baron, Michael Guyll, Jeff Scotland, Joshua Silvain and Royce Sparks.
Performance Dates
· Evenings at 7:30 - Thurs., July 15; and Sat eve, July 17 plus
· Matinees at 1:30 - Sun. July 11
Play #2, The Language of Flowers by Gavin Kayner, directed by Steve Anderson:
Think of this: It's the dead of night. Two sisters, one channeling Emily Dickinson - the second trapped in a delusion that her doll is a living baby - drag a body across the floor and stuff it into the refrigerator. They swear each other to secrecy. At dawn an escaped convict breaks into their home, into their private lives and all hell breaks loose. Of course, it's a love story. And a mystery. Waiting to be plucked.
The cast includes: Kristina Sloan, Brian Taraz and Robin Van Auken
Performance Dates
· Evenings at 7:30 - Sun., July 11; and Fri., July 16
· Matinees at 1:30 - Sun. July 18.
Play #3, A Work of Art by Jonathan Northover, directed by Lydia Borowicz:
London, England, in the world of high art as inhabited by Danny, Helen and Gornstoun and Helen’s Aunt Brailey, an eccentric gallery owner with a taste for good art. That is, as long as everyone realizes that it’s good. Led by bouts of arson, the exploitation of underage Chinese artists and a level of violence that can only derive from love, the plot centers around the disappearance of a unique original painting by the famous 19th century artist, Anton Von Holk Koopercheck. This is not just a play. It is an essential study of how far we might go in pursuit of a new idea, especially if it’s been done before. A study of our fascinating with originality, even if it doesn’t exist. And a study of not just what’s on the surface of art, but what’s supposed to be on the surface.
The cast includes Chelsea Bowdren, Sean Dupont, Stephen Frankenfield, Cynthia Jeffery and Steve McKee.
Performance Dates
· Evenings at 7:30 - Sat., July 10; Wed. July 14; and Sun. July 18
· Matinees at 1:30 - Sat, July 17
Parking is available at the City Garage at Pennington and Scott, just two blocks from the theatre, weekends - just $2 weeknights after 6 p.m. and a flat $2 all day on weekends. Street parking at meters is FREE after 5p weekdays and all day on weekends. Thanks to Pima County, the lot across the street from Beowulf Alley at Broadway and 6th Avenue is FREE Monday through Friday after 5pm and all weekend.
We hope that you’ll join us for some very exciting summer fun in our air-conditioned theatre.
