4 Plays To See At Ashland New Plays Festival Starting Wednesday
ASHLAND, Ore. — Four new plays from playwrights nationwide are set to reach the stage at the Ashland New Plays Festival (ANPF) which starts on Wednesday, October 16.
Ashland New Plays Festival Productions
With 350 submissions, the Ashland New Plays Festival is ready to feature four new works after a year-long selection process. The plays will all be presented as a staged reading twice during the festival. The plays feature life, love, and loss in the following plays at ANPF:
- Shanna Allman’s play “Sync”: Born in Texas, but now based in Seattle, the playwright’s work is a “sci-fi dramedy about love, reciprocity, and Artificial Intelligence”.
- Los Angeles’ Minita Gandhi’s “Nerve”: “A multigenerational and multicultural dark comedy that explores the love language of food, the deep wounds of sibling rivalry, and how a family moves through grief”.
- Keiko Green’s “You are Cordially Invited to the End of the World” (the playwright is from Los Angeles and Seattle): Greg received a terminal diagnosis but as he sees it, the world’s too big to not be kind of magical.
- A rare repeat appearance by Novid Parsi from St. Louis. Parsi with “The Life You Gave Me”: A play about a son attempting to save his mother, but his mother has a different plan.
Ashland New Plays Festival Details
Attendees will get the chance to interact with the playwrights during talkbacks after each performance at playwriting workshops scheduled for Saturday and Sunday.
- Dates: Wednesday, October 16 through Sunday, October 20.
- Performances: A matinee and evening performance of each of the four winning plays.
- Tickets to individual readings: $25
- Festival passes: $80. This gives the bearer the option to choose four of the eight performances to attend.
- Venue: Main Stage Theater at 491 S. Mountain Avenue in Ashland.
Playwriting workshops held at Ashland’s Elk’s Lodge at 225 E. Main Street:
- Saturday: Hosted by previous ANPF winner Clarence Coo with Minita Gandhi and Keiko Green.
- Sunday: Hosted by E.M. Lewis, writer of “Song of Extinction” a 2008 ANPF selection, with Novid Parsi and Shanna Allman.
- Workshop price: $25 each.
Buy tickets or get more information on the Ashland New Plays Festival website.