EVENTS AT THE TENT

This reading offered the team an opportunity to hear a first draft among a supportive room of colleagues.

Vivid, tough, brilliantly funny characters who grapple and tear at the universe--and each other. A real family story.

Tent Gatherings offer our roster of playwrights an opportunity to share work with each other in an informal space.

WHERE WOMEN GO is a series of three short one-acts for a diverse cast of women of various ages. Tina Howe’s eccentric plays explore the humor and absurdity of women’s daily lives as they visit the dermatologist, eat at Subway, and go shopping.

Tent Gatherings offer our roster of playwrights an opportunity to share work with each other in an informal space.

Acting classes in the East Village, NYC, a year where our troops were fighting a bloody, immoral war in Vietnam and people were raging in the streets, where the Black Panthers were being jailed and feted, where a group of young aspiring actors encountered an intrepid teacher who cajoled and hammered them to act.

This reading created an intimate and informal space for the playwright and collaborators to hear an early draft.

In March 2017, playwright Carlyle Brown's wife and dramaturge Barbara Rose-Brown had a stroke leaving her with right side weakness and unable to speak. A dramaturge had lost her access to language. Playwright had lost his dramaturge. As a way of dealing with their situation they decided to write a play. This is that play.

Worship explores the relationship between teachers and the students who idolize them. Estelle, a legendary writing teacher, is known for her signature style—a mystical approach combined with a brutal honesty and a willingness to do anything in the name of art. Some vilify her, others canonize her. When Alzheimer's debilitates her, she is visited by the students she has influenced most. Through a series of flashbacks and ritualized devotionals,the sacred and profane nature of the bond between this guru and her disciples is exposed.

This was an exploration of a work-in-process with supportive colleagues.

Tent Gatherings offer our roster of playwrights an opportunity to share work with each other in an informal space.

A memory play that takes place in the present, whatever the present is in the aleatory presence of memory. It is the story of love between a daughter and her elderly father who is tormented by memories of his blacklisting during the McCarthy era; a daughter who laments the recurrence of America's betrayal of her father and of all its citizens throughout history, while being forced to confront betrayals of her own.

Students at St. Mary’s Elementary School are preparing for Confirmation, but fourth grader Beatrice and her coterie threaten to boycott the ceremony due to their doctrinal differences with Catholic orthodoxy. At the same time, low enrollment figures and a strange influx of turtles threaten the very survival of the school. The situation worsens when Mikey, Beatrice’s classmate, shoots one of the turtles in the girls bathroom. And then his father Richie, bent on reviving the city’s economy by creating a pornographic video industry in an abandoned factory, gets involved. Porn, parents, children and turtles come together in an astonishing revelation that somehow manages to save Confirmation and St. Mary’s. Amen.

Dollarhide Star, a worn out salesman, climbs to the top of a blue mountain to sell a lightning rod to a young, lone woman, Net March. Each holds a host of secrets that unbutton, unravel, and reveal dark truths. Both are murderers and both are victims. Delusion and lies lead to seduction, violence, and a broken forgiveness. A surreal romance. A Blue Ridge Fantasia.