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THE ROBERTASSEY by Kathleen Cahill
New Play Sounding Series
Free Reading: THE ROBERTASSEY
A Comedy by Kathleen Cahill
Monday, April 29 @ 7pm
Director: Penelope Caywood
Actors: Joe Crnich, Olivia Custodio, Alexandra Harbold, Robert Scott Smith
Reader: Valerie Kittel
Stage Manager: Miranda Giles
Roberta Mahoney is 40, unemployed, and taking a trip to Dublin, her father’s birthplace, with his ashes in her suitcase. Her pregnant sister Carol, talked her into it. Roberta hated her father, Hiker, an alcoholic veterinarian who loved animals – especially a pet skunk – more than his family. Roberta arrives in Dublin but her suitcase doesn’t. Her trip turns into a magical mystery tour and the lost suitcase comes to represent her life of loses –her inability to develop intimate relationships, or to find something to do in life that matters to her – all caused, she believes, by her alcoholic father who keeps appearing, carrying her suitcase and singing his old songs. She meets a woman in a second hand clothing store with a skunk’s tail, a hotel concierge who shows up wearing Roberta’s shoes, and two baggage handlers named Garth and Aemon, who insist they are different people but who look exactly alike; one of them seduces her with his “orphic songs.” Everyone in Dublin seems to be involved in Roberta’s predicament.
THE ROBERTASSEY is a comedy about grief, loss and love; a comical metaphor for the process of learning how to live. As the recorded voice in the lost luggage department says: “Please continue to hold. Don’t give up. Hold on for as long as you possibly can.“
SLAC thanks the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation for their generous support of this vital program.
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Doors open at 6:30pm. Open seating; first come, first served.
Pictured clockwise from top left: Playwright Kathleen Cahill, Olivia Custodio, Robert Scott Smith, Alexandra Harbold, Joe Crnich, and Valerie Kittel
FOUR WOMEN TALKING ABOUT THE MAN UNDER THE SHEET by Elaine Jarvik
GRAB THEM BY THE P**** by Jeanette Munzert
BURST by Rachel Bublitz
New Play Sounding Series
Free Reading
Monday, September 24 @ 7pm
Director: Shannon Musgrave
Actors: Lily Hye Soo Dixon, Ava Kostia, Adriana Lemke
On the brink of her next round of funding, Sarah Boyd, Founder and CEO of Tactix, must hold her company together through a pesky journalist's questions and glaring doubts thrown her way surrounding the promises her company has made. It's a heavy load, and Sarah knows that she is the only one great enough to bear it.
SLAC thanks the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation for their generous support of this vital program.
Doors open at 6:30pm. Open seating; first come, first served.
PART OF THE STORY by David Kranes
THE SHUCK by Shawn Fisher
New Play Sounding Series
Free Reading
Monday, March 5 @ 7pm
Director: Shawn Fisher
Actors: Jeanette Puhich Foulger, Morgan Lund, Amy Ware
Reader: Olivia Custodio
Stage Manager: Ashley Winch
When Constance’s troubled son is lost at sea, and her long-lost daughter suddenly decides to visit, she is forced to face the truth about her family and the secrets that broke it apart so many years ago.
SLAC thanks the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation for their generous support of this vital program.
Doors open at 6:30pm. Open seating; first come, first served.
For a sneak peak of the reading, take a look at this article by Matt Morris of Utah Arts Magazine.
THE SQUIRRELS by Robert Askins
SILENT DANCER by Kathleen Cahill
New Play Sounding Series Free Reading
Monday March 6 @ 7pm
Director: Cynthia Fleming
Actors: Austin Archer, Carleton Bluford, Trent Cox, Dan Larrinaga, Samantha Matsukawa, Andy Rindlisbach, Katryna Williams
Stage Manager/Reader: Morag Shepherd
The story of a girl who dances in silent films in 1921 New York City, her family, her lovers and friends, and the famous couple who almost ruined her life.
Workshopped in the 2017 SLAC Playwrights' Lab.
SLAC thanks the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation for their generous support of this vital program.