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STAGED READINGS

July 6th - 12th @ The Flea NYC

Make A Wave

Sun Tea

By Amelia Clark

Monday, July 6th
7pm

Sun Tea is a comedy about (mostly) queer (mostly) women as they navigate the wins and woes of small town southern life and the family funeral home.

Baptist Passover

By Craig Winberry

Monday, July 6th

7:30pm

When a queer son returns to rural Arkansas after a local shooting, he is pulled back into the family, faith, and buried violence he thought he escaped. Baptist Passover is a dark comedy and family drama about old wounds, religious performance, inherited shame, and the dangerous cost of telling the truth. As grief cracks open the Walker family’s carefully protected myth, Huey becomes the one person who can either keep the silence or break the pattern for good. Raw, funny, unsettling, and deeply human, Baptist Passover asks what it really takes to free a family from itself.

Lisa + Tammy

By Carson White

Tuesday, July 7th
7:30pm

Set in rural Texas from the 1980s through present day, Lisa + Tammy follows the lives of two best friends through their stolen conversations at weddings, baby showers and funerals. At turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Lisa + Tammy explores the cost of unrealized dreams, the sacrifices generations of women make for one another—and really good deviled eggs. 

Canterbury Tales

By Larry Rinkel

Wednesday, July 8th 
7:30pm

Players re-enact six stories from the Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the late 14th century (the Merchant, Miller, Reeve, Wife of Bath, Knight, and Nun's Priest). Some of the tales are bawdy and farcical (like the Miller), some serious and tragic (like the Knight), and there's even a cute little animal fable (the Nun's Priest). Along the way we'll find the stories still have a lot to say about sex, love, marriage, social status, youth, and age. And for an encore we'll slip in a bonus tale (the Pardoner), a great parable about greed, revenge, and death.

Burned

By Cameron Forster

Thursday, July 9th
7:30pm

A New Year’s Day fire in 1915 devastates Benson’s All-Female College, killing four innocent young women and the school’s principal. Decades later, siblings Jack and Tori visit their great-aunt Sarah, now living in a nursing home built on the site, only to discover she’s being contacted by her sister Abigail—one of the victims that perished in the flames. As the past begins to resurface, they begin to uncover a truth their Aunt Sarah has spent a lifetime trying to bury and a haunting she can no longer escape. 

Gas Light Therapy

By Patricia Lynn

Friday, July 10th 
7:30pm

Dr. Greg Stein is pumped. He’s ready. He is so ready to introduce his newest invention, THE VICTOR—a revolutionary device that can permanently erase a woman’s most traumatic memory. And after he conducts a clinical trial super quick? He can take his pretty baby into mass production. But after he tricks a seemingly naive woman into being his test subject, Greg is anything but pumped. Because the woman he picked? She is not naive. In fact, both she and THE VICTOR are far more powerful than they seem…

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Very loosely inspired by Frankenstein, Gas Light Therapy is a twisted but witty exploration of mental health, identity, and the importance of recognizing that good intentions should never excuse dangerous actions. 

The Book Club

By Olivia Galligan

Saturday, July 11th
2pm

The Book Club is a lesbian coming-of-age dramedy that follows Molly, 16, and the imaginary conversations she has with the authors of 6 books she reads over the course of her young adult life. Through these conversations, the authors help Molly, and each other, on an awkward, challenging, joyful journey of lesbian self-discovery and acceptance.

Beneath The Wings Of a Dragonfly

By Jason Wang

Saturday, July 11th
7pm

After sensing the lingering presence of the boy he lost, Ivan is pulled into a dreamlike journey through memory, where past and present collide in waves of music, movement, and emotion. Guided by flashes of youth, love, and heartbreak, he revisits the moments that shaped their relationship while struggling to remain connected to the world around him. Blending poetic storytelling with an atmosphere of haunting nostalgia, the play explores grief, human connection, and the ache of holding onto someone who may never truly leave us.

Blue Skies Yonder

By Peter Fenton

Saturday, July 11th
7:30pm

A contemporary Agatha Christie-inspired locked room murder mystery in the shadow of late-stage capitalism. At his lavish book launch party, promising young author Harrison Fowler spirals under the weight of a mismanaged manuscript and the deadly ambitions of his colleagues and loved ones. In the cutthroat world of publishing, the real killer might be whoever tells the best story. A dark comedy about queer survival, creative ownership, and the stories we tell to stay relevant... even if it kills us.

Canary:
An American Myth

By Meghan Martin

Sunday, July 12th 
2pm

In the coal camps of 1920s West Virginia, families struggle to survive as whispers of unionization spread through the mountains. As devastating mine disasters shake their lives, young Caleb becomes obsessed with the myth of Icarus, searching for meaning in stories of flight, ambition, and flying too close to the sun. Blending Appalachian history and magical realism, Canary explores the cost of chasing freedom in a world designed to keep people underground. It is a story about the dangerous hope that ordinary people might someday rise together.

MOONBODIES

By Halley Platz

Sunday, July 12th 
7:30pm

MOONBODIES is an erotic horror play set in a nightmarish near-future New York City, where Shelley, a vibrant nightclub performer battling lifelong body dysmorphia and eating disorders, enrolls in an experimental drug trial that slowly transforms her into a werewolf. The catch: the drug only works if she eats. Using the trial to reconnect with Rumi, a chef and former lover struggling with his changing body, Shelley proposes a secret arrangement of sex, caretaking, feeding, and kink that spirals into a volatile romance as they both transform. Blending visceral body horror and surreal puppetry, MOONBODIES interrogates shame, body politics, and being fully seen.

©2019 by Rogue Theater Festival.

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