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RAT City Theater Company's 2001 Delaware 10-Minute Play Festival
Just wanted to remind any local rats that City Theater's 10-Minute
Play Festival is next week, Monday through Friday. Several rat
playwrights represented during the course of the week. Check
out the list in the press release below.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JULY 2, 2001
CONTACT: TOM SHADE, 302-654-4468, ext. 7
CITY THEATER COMPANY ANNOUNCES
2001 DELAWARE 10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL
City Theater Company, a member of the Theatre Alliance of Greater
Philadelphia, announces the 2001 DELAWARE 10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL.
The festival runs five consecutive nights, July 23-27, at the
Baby Grand Theatre (818 North Market Street in Wilmington). The
festival will showcase exciting productions of twenty-five original
ten-minute plays, five different plays each evening. (Parent
advisory: some plays contain mature themes, situations and language.)
The festival begins at 8:00 each night, with pre-show musical
entertainment starting at 7:15 in the front lobby. Admission
is only $10 at the door. Also on sale is the Festival Pass. The
pass gets you into all five nights of the festival, and serves
as your ticket so you don’t have to wait in line. All seating
in the air-conditioned theater is general admission. Tickets
and Festival Passes are on sale now at the Grand Opera House
box office (302-652-5577 or 1-800-37-GRAND). The 2001 Delaware
10-Minute Play Festival is sponsored by Out and About magazine.
For more information, call 302-654-4468, ext. 2, or visit the
City Theater website at www.city-theater.org.
The DELAWARE 10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL made its successful debut
in 1996, when eighty authors from as far away as Chicago and
Massachusetts sent in 130 scripts, and standing-room-only audiences
packed all four performances. 1997's festival was even bigger,
with scores of audience turned away at the door, despite overflow
seating each night, and with plays sent from as far away as South
Carolina, New York, California and Singapore. Three years ago,
the festival moved to its current location at the Grand Opera
House to accommodate the demand for seats. Despite the expansion
from four nights to five — and the higher seating capacity —
the festival continues to play to sold out audiences. At both
the 1999 and 2000 Festivals (when tickets were sold only at the
door), four of the five nights sold out a full forty-five minutes
prior to showtime — only fifteen minutes after tickets had gone
on sale.
This year, City Theater was inundated with plays like never
before: the company received 407 scripts from 193 different playwrights
(living in twenty-six states, plus Canada, England and Norway).
Selected scripts came from New York, California, Texas, New Jersey,
Maryland, Indiana, Minnesota and Pennsylvania, as well as Delaware.
Among the selected playwrights are Wilmington's Drury Pifer,
Gary Keifer, George Tietze, James Kassees, Matt Casarino and
Jay DeSimone, as well as 1997 Newark High School graduate Jason
Wells. Repeat participants include CTC Resident Playwrights Pifer
and Jon Dorf, as well as Wells, Keifer, Tietze, Kassees, Casarino,
Pennsylvania’s Sharon Daly Sweeney, Max Langert (Austin, Texas),
and New York playwrights Steve Schmersal and Patrick Barnes.
Festival Coordinator Tom Shade will be using thirteen area directors
and casting over thirty-five local actors for the sixty-eight
total roles in the twenty-five plays. Also part of each night
will be between-plays comedy improv, created by performers from
City Theater’s “Traveling Comedy Show.”
This program is made possible, in part, by grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts, and the Delaware Division of the Arts,
a state agency committed to promoting and supporting the Arts
in Delaware.
CITY THEATER COMPANY
PRESENTS
THE 2001 DELAWARE 10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL
(SPONSORED BY OUT & ABOUT MAGAZINE)
JULY 23-27
THE BABY GRAND THEATRE
818 NORTH MARKET STREET, WILMINGTON
8:00 PM
(PRE-SHOW MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT STARTS AT 7:15 NIGHTLY)
TICKETS: $10 NIGHTLY, FULL FESTIVAL PASS: $30
302-652-5577 OR 1-800-37-GRAND
THE PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS
(SOME PLAYS CONTAIN MATURE THEMES, SITUATIONS AND LANGUAGE.)
Monday, July 23
Doom by Elvet Konrad
by Men And Parts by John Morogiello
Dirty Laundry by William Borden
Overanalysis by Gabriel Shanks
Dome by James Kassees
Tuesday, July 24
Tim Eless, Private Eye by Stephen Kaplan
Armageddon In One Act by Drury Pifer
Dig by Bill Canning
Trying On by Steven Schutzman
She Stole My Heart by Jason Wells
Wednesday, July 25
Lovers In The Park by Steven Gridley
Smokin' by Sharon Daly Sweeney
Personality Test by Max Langert
Georgia Robbed A Bank by Alexander E. Dremann
Yes, Mamet by Matt Casarino
Thursday, July 26
X Marks The Spot by Jonathan Dorf
Blood by Eric Pfeffinger
In Sanity Is Love by Jay DeSimone
Come To Bed While You're Pretty by Kirk Lynn
Dead Wong by Alexander E. Dremann
Friday, July 27
Heaven by Vicki Caroline Cheatwood
A to Z by George Tietze
Feng Shui and the Helen Hunt Moving Company by Gary Keifer
Trash Anthem by Dan Dietz
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Missing President’s Brain
by Patrick Barnes and Steve Schmersal
FOR MORE INFO, CALL CTC @ 302-654-4468x2 or VISIT OUR WEBSITE
AT www.city-theater.org
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