Scenes for a Sunday afternoon
        A Series of New Play Readings
         
  New plays read by professional actors.  Presented by the Rockland Center for the Arts in cooperation with The Lark Circle Professional Playwright's Group

Artistic Director: Don Monaco
 
                    Tickets: $5.00 General admission        
                      $4.00 Center members        
 
 
        September 28, 2003  2:00pm
Casting Lydia by Don Monaco
When a young actress is cast in the title role in a play that gives her no lines to speak, what does she do? Why does the author/director need her so desperately, and the actors - the ones with lines - hate her so much? In this comedy of stage manners and the personality traps we dig ourselves, characters find a way to grow and thrive. 
 
                               
        October 26  2:00pm 
The Feeblemindedness of Women by Staci Swedeen
Gerty Cori, was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Science. Originally commissioned by Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the play combines comedy, drama, love and science to challenge the stereotype that women are incapable of being tough, rigorous and rational - all hallmarks of good science. 
 
 
        November 9, 2003 2:00pm 
Phaedrus by Erik Johnke
Based on the characters from Plato's dialogues, Phaedrus is a dramatic interpretation of the events leading to the trial and death of Socrates. Phaedrus is an idealistic young man torn between his love of discussing philosophy with his beloved teacher, Socrates, and his politically powerful father, Meletus. Frustrated that his only son has turned his back on a promising career in politics, he decides to discredit Socrates and teach his son a lesson. 
 
 
        December 7, 2003  2:00pm 
Home Movies by Mike Folie
A struggling independent filmmaker stumbles upon an old home movie of Albert Einstein making love to Marilyn Monroe and attempts to use the film to jump start his own career as a director.
 
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