FULL-LENGTH PLAY OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

A List of Happenings at 1016 14th St. (Not Necessarily in Chronological Order) by Anna Watts
Monday, May 27 at 7 p.m.

A group of women studying at the University of Colorado during the 1955-1956 school year occupy an apartment on 14th Street. Inspired by a note left by the playwright’s great aunt, this slice-of-life-style piece is a high-energy portrayal of a short moment of freedom for these "strange women.” Exploring themes of friendship, sexuality, gender roles, intellectualism, and ambition, this play is a gift to a group of people who were historically undermined, forgotten, and oppressed.

Strange Birds by E.M. Lewis
Tuesday, May 28 at 7 p.m.

When Jo and her forest ranger trainee find blood in the snow outside a remote mountain house, they suspect that something bad has happened.  Can they figure out what before the storm hits?  Jo’s old friend Lou might be able to help… or she might be involved herself.   Strange Birds is about women, and wolves, and sisters, and secrets.  What do we owe to the systems that oppress us?  And how do you escape something you carry inside you?

GIRLHOOD by Ida Esmaeili
Wednesday, May 29 at 7 p.m

In an Upper East Side apartment, seven teenage girls gather over the course of a year as they prepare for their debutante ball: a night that will ultimately change their lives in ways they never could have predicted. Girlhood follows a diverse and tight-knit group of friends navigating the tragedies of adolescence, and the small cruelties they inflict upon each other while they look for their places in the world. They are funny. They are strong. They are deeply flawed. And they are figuring it out. 

Dead Girls’ Club by Sarah Elizabeth Grace
Thursday, May 30 at 7 p.m.

Dead Girls Club is inspired by the real lives (and deaths) of six teenage girls from metro-Detroit, who went missing during the 1970's and 80’s. While waiting to discover their souls’ destination in a purgatory recreation room, the girls play Dungeons and Dragons while intermittently using one another to tell stories about their messy, beautiful, rebellious, mundane, and imperfect adolescence.

Can’t Stop the WROK! by Robb Willoughby
Friday, May 31 at 7 p.m.

It’s Homecoming Week of 1984, and the students of Rockdale’s popular radio station, WROK, are busy promoting the “Purple Rain” themed Dance and dealing with all the drama that comes with being in high school. When a big corporation threatens to buy their radio station and cancel their morning broadcasts, the students must rally together to save the station. Featuring music from the ’80s and lots of laughs – this feel-good comedy proves that you just Can’t Stop the WROK!

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