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Two weekends of highlighting eye-opening, conversation-starting, humorous, heartbreaking, true, and fictionalized plays and musicals.
Produced by Powerstories Theatre in collaboration with The Thrü-Line Theatre Production Company.
Wednesday, October 6 – 8pm
In McClintock’s Corn by Carolyn Gage (Maine) RATED PG
The entire play is set in a cornfield. The play is about gender-non-conforming, neurodivergent geneticist Barbara McClintock and her companion/partner Harriet Creighton, and McClintock’s revolutionary quest to understand diversity in nature and to reframe “deviance” as an expression of natural variance.
ON OUR VIRTUAL STAGE
Thursday, October 7 – 8pm
See Thrü Women: A Night of Short Scenes
(This will be a selection of scenes from 5 female playwrights from across the country) After Class RATED G, Broken Glass RATED G, Wish Me Luck RATED PG-13, The Contest RATED R, Slide Rules RATED G, Studio RATED R, The Towel Lady RATED PG, Arithmetic of Memory RATED PG, and Patron of the Arts RATED R
LIVE ON ZOOM/RECORDED IN THEATRE
Friday, October 8 – Night of Shorts – 8pm
No Fall My Hand by Amy Losi (New York) RATED PG
A traumatized hospice nurse from Nigeria, and an older woman caring for her terminally ill ex-husband, meet in a hospital ICU wing and discover that they share a common history of spousal abuse. By the end of the evening, they learn that their bond is even stronger than they realized.
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Once Upon Uhhh…. by Deborah Bostock-Kelley (Florida) RATED PG
A frazzled playwright facing writer’s block, filled with self-doubt attempts to write a play under a tight deadline, while her characters act out what she is frenetically describing.
BOTH ON OUR VIRTUAL STAGE
Saturday, October 9 – 8pm
My Year of Saying No by Janice Creneti (Florida) RATED PG
Under the weight of a global pandemic, a woman begins the journey of confronting what isn’t working and making room for herself in her own life.
IN-THEATRE
Sunday, October 10 MATINEE – 3pm
President Montgomery by Maggie Gamson (Florida) RATED PG-13
President Montgomery tells a story of passion, drive, and growing up as a girl in America. The story of Willow Montgomery follows her and her family through the ups and downs of a complicated relationship.
ON OUR VIRTUAL STAGE
Sunday, October 10 – 8pm
THE PRIDE OF BANGOR (or What Not to Wear) by Laura Emack (Maine) RATED PG
The Pride of Bangor [or What not to Wear] recalls a vicious public battle between shock jock Donald Imus and then-mayor Patricia Blanchette over whether the Paul Bunyan statue – a claimed symbol of mysterious lineage – should don a promotional Imus T-shirt.
ON OUR VIRTUAL STAGE
Wednesday, October 13 – 8pm
No Justice by Dana Hall & Kenisha Morgan (Illinois) RATED PG-13
Justice (Kenisha Morgan), a Black law school student in Illinois on lockdown during the pandemic, has been referred to a therapist when her mother turns ill back in her small hometown. When the therapist, Dr. Myers (Ruth Hansen), turns out to be white and there are no Black therapists on the school’s staff, racial borders must be reckoned with as the two struggle to address Justice’s crisis, as two national crises unfold at the same time. Writers Hall and Morgan leaven pointed cultural criticism with humor to deliver this one-act drama.
ON OUR VIRTUAL STAGE
Thursday, October 14 – 8pm
Meet You Downstairs by Katy Copeland (New York) RATED R
Meet You Downstairs is a queer serio-comedy that follows Kit as she ferociously tries to come up with any label that appropriately defines her sexuality. We see Kit stumble through her 20s, attempting to unpack the complexities of love, sex, relationships, “infidelity” and what it means to be queer in a heteronormative world.
ON OUR VIRTUAL STAGE
Friday, October 15 – Night of Shorts – 8pm
Jeannette Rankin Fights Back by Beth Urech (New Mexico) RATED G
Beth Urech portrays the first woman elected to Congress in 1916. Jeannette Rankin fought for women’s suffrage, opposed war and proclaimed the electoral college and two-party system out of date. As her cousin, Beth is proud to bring Jeannette to life.
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Holy Inappropriate by Allison Fradkin (Illinois) RATED R
Here’s the story of a lovely lady who is bringing up three very lovely girls…in the Christian Patriarchy Movement. Now that all three are officially members of the premarital sex, it’s time for Mom to teach them about the birds and the believers, but what happens when she discovers that the disciples at her disposal are neither disposable nor…dispassionate?
BOTH ON OUR VIRTUAL STAGE
Saturday, October 16 – 8pm
Thru-Line’s Elective Amnesia by Gretchen Suarez-Pena (Florida) RATED R
There’s a new treatment available where you can choose to have your memories removed or altered to eliminate and address trauma and depression. Simra has battled a life of clear, plaguing memories. Because she can’t change the past, she sets out to change her mind instead.
LIVE ON ZOOM
Sunday, October 17 – MATINEE – 3pm
L’Artiste, It’s French by Joi Banks (Florida) RATED PG-13
L’ Artiste, It’s French is a comedy that follows Zena King, a sophisticated millennial entrepreneur and her fun-loving friends as their branding agency takes on a client that might be the next Basquiat.
IN-THEATRE
Sunday, October 17 – 8pm
Neechie-itas by Jo MacDonald (Canada) RATED PG-13
A chance encounter finds Spencer and her three Neechies catching the man who almost ruined her life. Now they just need to convince the cops the “smoking gun” was fired in the name of justice. Honest.
ON OUR VIRTUAL STAGE