Interplay - The Northlight Reading Series
There's nothing quite like being in the audience as a play is performed for the first time - hearing it come to life and getting behind-the-scenes insight from the playwright, the director and the actors. Providing audiences the opportunity to witness a part of the evolutionary process from page to stage is what Interplay is all about.
Now in its fifth season, the Interplay Reading Series continues to engage its growing audience with provocative new works by emerging American playwrights, giving you a glimpse into the critical stages of early play development. Each year we'll bring you new works and fresh points of view that will engage, challenge and entertain you.
If you are one of the Northlight family who hasn't yet had the opportunity, make this your year to experience Interplay for yourself. Discover a truly exhilarating theatrical experience and join us as a brand new play takes shape. Interplay is your chance to engage with fresh new work on a whole new level!
Tickets for the 2010-11 readings are now on sale for $15 per reading or $50 for a 4-Play Series Package. For more information, or to purchase tickets, call 847.673.6300.
2010-11 Interplay Schedule
All readings are held on Mondays at 7:00pm, followed by a post-show discussion and light reception.
December 13, 2010
MISTER HART & MISTER BROWN by Bruce Graham
The 1960s and 1920s collide when Mister Hart meets Mister Brown, and a young journalist attempts to capture a notorious tale of Chicago gangsters, gun-slinging cowboys and bootlegging in the west.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: Bruce Graham's plays include: Burkie, Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar & Grille, Moon Over the Brewery, Minor Demons, Belmont Avenue Social Club, The Champagne Charlie Stakes, Desperate Affection, Coyote on a Fence (Winner of The Rosenthal Prize,Two Drama Desk Nominations - the West End production starred Ben Cross) According to Goldman, Dex and Julie Sittin' in a Tree. His one man show, The Philly Fan, plays semi-continuously throughout the Philadelphia area and the recent production of Something Intangible won seven Barrymore Awards including Best New Play and has been nominated for the Steinberg New Play Award. FILM CREDITS: Dunston Checks In, Anastasia, Steal This Movie. Television: Hunt for the Unicorn Killer, The Christmas Secret, Ring of Endless Light (Humanitas Award Winner - Best Children's Screenplay) Right on Track, Tiger Cruise, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Roseanne, Leg Work and various soap operas. Along with Michele Volansky he is the author of the book, The Collaborative Playwright. Graham is a graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He teaches film and theatre courses at Drexel University.
HOUSE ON STILTS by Sarah Hammond
Haunted by a Fourth of July accident, Rutherford Stub lives alone in a borrowed house on the edge of Crooktail Island, waiting for the woman across the water to wake up - until an old friend and her daughter arrive, wrecking his solitude. In the months between his unhappy birthday and the always difficult Fourth of July, hermitical Rutherford gets a glimpse of a life-like life. But when it's time to let go, can he? A tale of hard longing and unexpected friendship set in the South Carolina lowcountry.
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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: Raised in Hong Kong, Belgium and South Carolina, Sarah is the author of Green Girl (SPF at the Public Theatre), Kudzu (Trustus Theatre), The Extinction of Felix Garden and House on Stilts. Honors include the Heideman Award (Actors Theatre of Louisville), two MacDowell Colony Fellowships, a residency at the Royal National Theatre in London, and commissions from South Coast Repertory Theatre and Broadway Across America. Her plays have been developed with Ars Nova, Page 73 Productions, the Hangar Theater, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Australia's Interplay Festival, and the Undergroundzero Festival in Germany. Her short pieces have been seen at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, the McCarter Theatre, Collaboraction's Sketchbook Festival, City Theatre Summer Shorts, and Clubbed Thumb's Pageant of the Fifty States. She is published in Ten Minute Plays for 2 Actors: the Best of 2004 (Smith & Kraus) and Great Short Plays: Volume 6 (Playscripts Inc.). Sarah is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and lives in Brooklyn.
April 4, 2011
UPRIGHT GRAND by Laura Schellhardt
A father and daughter attempt to bridge personal, professional and familial hardships through their shared passion, the piano.
June 6, 2011
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE SUICIDE CLUB by Jeffrey Hatcher
Sherlock Holmes, the most renowned detective in the English-speaking world, joins a dangerous game with some of England's most powerful men. The game is murder; the group the daring detective joins is The Suicide Club. This tale of mayhem, magic and mystery is brought to the stage by one of Northlight's favorite playwrights, Jeffrey Hatcher (Ella, Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie, and next season's Ten Chimneys).
All plays, artists and dates are subject to change.
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