 The Unfortunates Professional Equity Play April 13-29, 2012 |
The English Bride
Wed., Apr. 6, 2011 / 7:30pm
Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Center
Be a part of the creative process!
 Lucile Lichtblau, playwright |
The annual Centenary Stage Company Women Playwrights Series (WPS) makes its return to Hackettstown this April with a dynamic line-up of new plays, discussions, and a writing workshop.
Now celebrating its 19th year, the Series features the finalists in the Centenary Stage Company Susan Glaspell contest, which offers the winner further development support worth $30,000 in a full production on the CSC professional Equity main-stage, as well as a cash payment to the author.
About the Play
This year’s Series opens with a compelling mystery, The English Bride, by NJ Playwright Lucile Lichtblau. Following
a failed bombing attempt on an El Al flight out of London, the search for the truth becomes an elusive chase in the interrogation
of the young Englishwoman and the Arab man with whom she has fallen in love.
Location:
This WPS event will take place in the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Center on the campus of Centenary College. Directions
About the Playwright
A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Lichtblau was the first recipient of Yale’s MCA Fellowship in Playwriting. Her
play Car Talk, had its world premiere July 2009 at Stageworks in Hudson, NY, where it was commissioned and developed,
and is currently in production at And Toto Too Theatre Company in Denver, Colorado. The English Bride, was
a winner of Panndora’s Box Productions New Play Festival and received development in Santa Ana CA last fall. She has
had several short plays produced at Stageworks in their annual Play By Play Festival and at many other venues, including The
Vital Theater, the Turnip Theater, Polaris North, The Manhattan Theatre Source, in New York City and at regional theaters throughout
the country. Public Access Television in Great Neck New York has produced three of her short plays in their New Playwright’s
Competition. The third of these, Seems Like Old Times, was incorporated into PATV’s documentary
on turning a script into a TV play:It All Starts with the Script, which was shown at the
LA/NY International Independent Film Festival, where it won three awards. Seems Like Old Times, has won awards
for best professional comedy and best professional drama from the Northeast Public Television Affiliates (2007). A resident
of Fort Lee, NJ, Lichtblau is a member of AEA and The Dramatists Guild
Reservations / Pricing
Free and open to the public!
Admission to the Women Playwrights Series is by donation, and reservations are requested for all events. For reservations,
a schedule of events and information, contact the Centenary Stage Company at 908-979-0900, or see our Women
Playwrights Series page.
About Women Playwrights Series
The
CSC Women Playwrights Series is dedicated to providing a working forum
for the unique and underserved voice of women writing for the theater today. The Series offers emerging playwrights a chance
to work with professional directors and actors in a short rehearsal period, followed by a staged reading of the work in front
of a live audience, with audience feedback and discussion.
Each presentation features:
- Staged reading of the work
- Lively "talk-backs" with the playwright and cast following the performance
- Refreshments for all
Now celebrating its 20th year, the Series features the finalists in the Centenary Stage Company Susan Glaspell contest, which offers the winner further development support worth $30,000 in a full production on the CSC professional Equity main-stage, as well as a cash payment to the author.
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| The WPS is made possible in part through the generous support of the The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, American Airlines - the official airline of Centenary Stage Company) and Arts Guild Members and Sponsors. |
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