Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council’s 2008-9 Readers’ Theater Series continues March 30 with two short scripts by playwright Nicola Pearson.
“Saving Nature” is an improbable but compelling story of the rescue of Nature from an industrial building site. Paired with this environmental fantasy is “Karmic Koffee,” a brew that can put Starbuck’s to shame is peddled by a young man who wishes good fortune to the world he sells his product to.
The Readers’ Theater series has served as a resource to bring together actors, readers and playwrights in an entertaining and educational environment for the last three years. With a focus on presenting new works, this program allows writers to learn about their own work by seeing and hearing it aloud, and provides a setting in which all participants experience opportunities to develop his or her craft. Each of the playwrights whose play has been selected receives a $100 award from the Arts Council.
Admission to the Readers’ Theater is free. A coffee, cookie and discussion time is scheduled after the presentation when audience, playwright, and cast will have the opportunity to exchange ideas about the script.
The next Readers Theater event on April 27 will feature “A Cricket in the Snow,” by Richard Maslow. This script returns to the era when J. Edgar Hoover’s militia prowled the streets and invaded homes and found communists under every stone they turned. Maslow’s script presents a well-written retrospective perspective on Hoover’s paranoia.
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