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COMING UP NEXT!
PAST TENSE Six Short Plays Online June 18-27 Check back here on June 18 for the link! Pay What You Can Join The Forge Theater Lab for an online showcase of short plays about people coming face-to-face with their past selves. By turns comic, poignant, and powerful, these stories explore the challenge of living in the present when you can see the past in the mirror. Featuring works by Steven William Beck, Matt Cogswell, Cayenne Douglass, Ken Green, and Ashley Lauren Rogers. Meet the playwrights. |
Graphic designed by Monique Reverie.
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THE ARCHITECTS OF TIME by Cayenne Douglass
Featuring Jeanine Bartel and Nael Nacer
Directed by Lee Douglass
Bobby and Claire haven’t seen each other in fourteen years. They decide to return to their favorite vacation spot, a place where their love loomed high, to see what’s possible in a different time. They begin by using aliases in an attempt to start anew, but quickly learn they can’t have an authentic connection until they unmask the truth of their past.
BLACK LIPSTICK by Ashley Lauren Rogers
Featuring Sydney Lipsett and Kathleen O’Connor
Directed by Samantha deManbey
Hoping to have a little bit of fun, a single mother tries to go see her favorite band, but only if her daughter approves of her outfit.
FILLING IN THE GAPS by Ken Green
Featuring Daniel T. Hankins and Cheyenne Winley
Directed by Rebecca Joseph
A DNA test results in a meeting between two people who, while “related,” are definitely not family. Or are they?
MUSEUM TOUR by Cayenne Douglass
Featuring Maureen Keiller
Directed by Caley Chase
A docent leads museum patrons on a walk through a gallery. Days after The Kavanaugh Hearing, she is triggered by something she sees in the art as it relates to this moment in history. This association sets in motion an unearthed trauma of a repressed memory, causing her to vacillate between art vernacular and fragmented bits of a previously unvoiced experience.
REVERSE ENLIGHTENMENT by Steven William Beck
Featuring Mike Daniel, Felipe Ferreira, Michael Knight, and Brittany Messuri Rechenberger
Directed by Jack Crory
At a Narcotics Anonymous meeting on a snowy Fitchburg night, Logan meets a stranger from his past who has haunted him.
ONE ANGRY GAY MAN
Written and performed by Matt Cogswell
Directed by Samantha deManbey
One actor plays seven characters, with varying levels of implosive and explosive anger, who are trying their best.
Featuring Jeanine Bartel and Nael Nacer
Directed by Lee Douglass
Bobby and Claire haven’t seen each other in fourteen years. They decide to return to their favorite vacation spot, a place where their love loomed high, to see what’s possible in a different time. They begin by using aliases in an attempt to start anew, but quickly learn they can’t have an authentic connection until they unmask the truth of their past.
BLACK LIPSTICK by Ashley Lauren Rogers
Featuring Sydney Lipsett and Kathleen O’Connor
Directed by Samantha deManbey
Hoping to have a little bit of fun, a single mother tries to go see her favorite band, but only if her daughter approves of her outfit.
FILLING IN THE GAPS by Ken Green
Featuring Daniel T. Hankins and Cheyenne Winley
Directed by Rebecca Joseph
A DNA test results in a meeting between two people who, while “related,” are definitely not family. Or are they?
MUSEUM TOUR by Cayenne Douglass
Featuring Maureen Keiller
Directed by Caley Chase
A docent leads museum patrons on a walk through a gallery. Days after The Kavanaugh Hearing, she is triggered by something she sees in the art as it relates to this moment in history. This association sets in motion an unearthed trauma of a repressed memory, causing her to vacillate between art vernacular and fragmented bits of a previously unvoiced experience.
REVERSE ENLIGHTENMENT by Steven William Beck
Featuring Mike Daniel, Felipe Ferreira, Michael Knight, and Brittany Messuri Rechenberger
Directed by Jack Crory
At a Narcotics Anonymous meeting on a snowy Fitchburg night, Logan meets a stranger from his past who has haunted him.
ONE ANGRY GAY MAN
Written and performed by Matt Cogswell
Directed by Samantha deManbey
One actor plays seven characters, with varying levels of implosive and explosive anger, who are trying their best.
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This online event is supported in part by a grant from the Fitchburg Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council. We appreciate their support for our mission of developing new plays, and are proud to be part of the vibrant arts and culture community of Fitchburg!
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