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Upcoming Play Reading

The End of the Beginning

By Seán O’Casey

A rural irish farm couple argue about who has it harder men or women. They bet on it and switch jobs for the day on the farm.

First produced in 1937, this one act comedy is a step from the usually much more serious and political-minded O’Casey, one of the great irish playwrights.

Past Play Readings

THE CHAIRS

By Eugene Ionesco

An elderly couple prepares for a meeting of great importance, their main speaker The Orator is on his way and everyone must find a seat.

An absurdist farce from the master of the genre Eugene Ionesco, this play has been reminding audiences of the meaningless of life since 1952.

The actor’s Nightmare

by Christopher Durang

A mild-mannered nobody finds themselves thrust into a theatrical production of a play that is never named. Durang’s nightmare paradox was created as a curtain-raiser for his hit play Sister Ignatius Explains it All For You since 1981.

Words Words Words and The Philadelphia

By David Ives

Three Chimpanzees find themselves in a room with typewriters tasked with the job of typing until they create “Hamlet”

Two friends meet up in a bar to find that though they’re in the same literal place, metaphysically they are miles apart.

Part of Ives’ “All in the Timing” these two plays have been entertaining crowds since their original production in 1992.

The Zoo Story

by Edward Albee

A mild mannered gentleman is interrupted from his reading at Central Park by a New York City vagrant, who has just returned from the zoo and is in dire need to discuss his story.

First produced in German with Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape in 1959 it soon was produced off Broadway where it shot it’s playwright into superstardom while winning the Obie for Best Play.

Trifles

by Susan Glaspell

There’s been a mysterious death in a small town, the local law enforcement goes to investigate, but while they’re wasting their time trying to be important, two of the local ladies set forth to figure out the real truth.

First produced with the legendary Provincetown Players in Cape Cod, Massachusetts in the summer of 1916.

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DBaD productions’ one act play reading series will come to you, ACTORS AND ALL, and present to you a full theatre experience. After each play reading, a power point presentation about the original productions of each play will be given by a DBaD member. For more information about plays offered and prices E-mail below

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