Announcing the 2010-2011 Season at Rex Mathes Auditorium:

Three Changes by Nicky Silver

Directed by Maranda Turner

Performances:  October 1-16, 2010 
Auditions:  August 9-10 
Available Roles: 2 men, age 25+, 1 man, age 18-25, 1 woman, age 18-25, 1 woman, age 25+
Synopsis:  Nate and Laurel are a seemingly happy couple—busy, content and comfortable—until the surprising arrival of Hal, Nate’s long-lost brother. A once-successful television writer, Hal is just out of rehab. He’s out of cash and alone in the world. But what seems to be a casual visit, a chance to reconnect, is quickly revealed to be something much more ominous. As he attempts to write his first novel, Hal insidiously usurps Nate’s place in the home. As the play builds to its climax, the two brothers who have tried to find a way to love each other, become locked in a battle that will cost one of them their life.

Fifth Annual Iowa Playwrights Workshop
-A fresh new work by a local playwright-

Workshop and production under the direction of Josh Visnapuu

Submissions welcome through September 1
Selected Script Announced October 4

WORKSHOP DATES:
Workshop 1: October 24-30 
Staged Readings:  November 1-2 
Workshop 2:  November 7-13 

PRODUCTION DATES:
Performances:  January 21-February 5, 2011 
Auditions:  November 15-16 
Available Roles: To be announced upon script selection
 

The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer

Directed by Daryl Vitali

Performances:  April 22-May 7, 2011 
Auditions:  February 21-22 
Available Roles:  1 man, age 16-21, 3 men, age 25+, 3 women, age 25+, 1 woman, age 50+, 1 flexible (no gender/age requirement)
Synopsis: Winner of the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize, The Shadow Box centers around three terminal cancer patients dwelling in separate cottages on a hospital grounds. The three are attended and visited by family and close friends: Agnes and her mother Felicity, estranged further by the latter’s dementia; Brian and ex-wife Beverly, whose complications are exacerbated by Brian’s new lover, Mark; and Joe and Maggie, unready for the strain of Joe’s impending death and its effect on their teenage son.