Staged Play Readings 2013-14
Requiem for a Heavyweight
by Rod Serling
directed by Clem DeLuca and M.J. Renzi
Requiem for a Heavyweight was a teleplay written by Rod Serling and produced for the live television show Playhouse 90 on 11 October 1956.
The teleplay won a Peabody Award, the first given to an individual script, and helped establish Serling’s reputation.
Harlan “Mountain” McClintock, a once-promising but now washed-up boxer who faces the end of his career after he is savagely defeated by a younger boxer. McClintock is suffering from Dementia pugilistica or “punch drunk syndrome”—brain damage caused by his career. A fight doctor refuses to certify McClintock for further boxing, saying that another rough match could blind or even kill him. Boxing is all McClintock has ever known.
Love, Loss and What I Wore
by
Nora & Delia Ephron
directed by Warren Sampson
Love, Loss, and What I Wore is a play written by Nora and Delia Ephron based on the 1995 book of the same name by Ilene Beckerman. It is organized as a series of monologues and uses a rotating cast of five principal women. The subject matter of the monologues includes women's relationships and wardrobes and at times the interaction of the two, using the female wardrobe as a time capsule of a woman's life.
The House of Bernarda Alba
by Federico García Lorca and adapted by Emily Mann
Directed by
The Company in memory of Bernie Jablonski
The play tells the story of a repressive and domineering widow who forces her five unmarried daughters to remain in mourning for their father, sequestered with her on the family estate, for eight years. Frustrated and angry, the women respond in their individual ways to their mother’s cruelty, and the play ends in violence.