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Join us for free readings of exciting NEW WORKS that are in keeping with our mission to bring you risky, adventurous plays that you won’t find anywhere else in Southern California.
THE BODY’S MIDNIGHT By TIRA PALMQUIST
directed by Jessica Kubzansky
SAT, APR 29, 12PM
Determined to put a troubling diagnosis in the rearview mirror, Anne and her husband David embark on the perfect American road trip. They have a map, a destination, an impressive list of cool spots to stop along the way and a timeline that should put them in Minneapolis just in time for the birth of their first grandchild. But what if their perfect plan is merely a distraction from the complicated, ridiculous, occasionally breathtaking and often far messier journey they’d hoped to avoid? Bearing witness to the beauty of things, even as they disappear, Ann and David struggle to come to terms with the unexpected and unavoidable journey of their lives.
OBSCURA by AUSTIN OWENS KELLY
directed by Michael Michetti
SUN, APR 30, 11AM
Finch Montgomery’s photography exhibition began as a series of photos capturing a week long family gathering at their childhood home in Elmhurst, Illinois. In the midst of shooting this series, their father took his own life. This exploration into the series of events leading into and falling out of his death reveal the intricacies and complexities of familial relationships, how we hide our secrets, and where trauma makes its home with us. In order for a photograph to truly develop, it must first plunge deep into the vast, swallowing darkness.
Here is where by vasanti saxena
directed by Katherine Chou
SUN, APR 30, 2:30PM
In the aftermath of 9/11, two sisters receive an unexpected package that brings them to the intersection of their uncertain present and their grandmother’s past in wartime Nanjing.
