2008 Events

Sundays @ 8: A Season of Rehearsed Readings

Our popular season of readings returns. The series brings both local and national Guest Artists to Franklin with material that is in development. Join us as we welcome these new voices to our theatre, and find out what they are exploring in their latest plays.

All readings take place in Chapel Hall, Admission Free, donations gratefully accepted.

Sunday June 15 (Father's Day) at 2pm and 8pm

4 Beds, 3 Baths, 2 Nuts
Written and performed by Jim Mullen

Please note, a reception follows each performance
Join local resident, nationally recognized author and hilarious raconteur Jim Mullen for his latest poignant musings on upstate life. Jim is the author of It Takes A Village Idiot, finalist for the 2001 Thurber Prize for American Humor. All proceeds from these performances go to FSC.

“delightful… always amusing and sometimes hilarious” CNN

Sunday July 27 at 8

Cuba and the Night
by Eduardo Machado
directed by Ed Vassallo

When the political and personal collide, art is born. Cuba and the Night is a tale of class, race and love in Spanish colonial Cuba. Music and poetry are laced into a personal yet epic love story. Written by one of the foremost Cuban-American playwrights Eduardo Machado.

Sunday August 17 at 8

I Gelosi
written by David Bridel, in collaboration with Eugene Marner
directed by David Bridel

The picaresque story of the Gelosi, one of Italy's first great traveling theatre troupes in the 16th century, who rose from obscurity to become the darlings of the French Court, until they risked the wrath of Pope Gregory with a bitter theatrical satire.

Sunday August 24 at 8

The Maids
by Jean Genet
directed by Patricia Buckley

Based on a shocking murder case in '30s France, Genet's play is a violent and disturbing meditation on class and servitude.

 

Admission to readings is free.
Bookings are not required.