| The readings take place the second Sunday of each month at The Venus Theatre Play Shack. 21 C Street Laurel, MD 20707 Using minimal staging and props Venus Theatre artists aim to highlight the scripts themselves and provide a forum for useful feedback and conversation surrounding each text. The reading is organized on a volunteer basis and while the playwright’s presence is greatly encouraged Venus cannot offer compensation for travel expenses. Venus Theatre’s mission is “setting flight to the voices of women.” Our aim in choosing scripts for the wRighting Women series is to be as inclusive as possible, welcoming texts written by both women and men as long as they deal centrally with the mission at Venus’ core. |
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Schedule
Second Sunday's in 2006 were at 2pm (unless otherwise noted), Touchstone Gallery 406 7th
Street, NW 2nd Floor (across from Ticketplace) Wine and Chocolate provided, free to public
2006
January 14, Sappho in Love by Carolyn Gage
February 12, All My Silence Is Yours by Linda Suzuki
Sometimes love ends and nothing is left but sex. Sometimes pain ends and nothing is left but friendship.
Sometimes trust ends and nothing is left but forgiveness. Sometimes a single note ends and nothing is left
but silence. All My Silence Is Yours tells these four love stories – from end to beginning.
March 12, Venus Theatre/wRighting Women/ March Shorts Event featuring:
"The Gage and Mr. Comstock" by Carolyn Gage, we soon will all know what it means to throw down and
pick up the challenge.
"Tru Luv" by Cindy Cooper, parents will never understand this luv
"Near and Far" by Rich Espey, what happens when emails hide truth?
"Walking" by Karin Webb, ..."So I was a little drunk."
"Cold Reading" by Juliana Avery, and she thought botox was a good idea.
"The Mind-Body Connection" by Mary T. Lane, a wonderful dance
"Night Flight" by Cindy Marie Martin, asleep or awake?
untitled, by Terence Heffernan, observations of a nun
"Sakina" by Micheal Leicht, a trial that will break your heart
"O Brave New Girl" by Michael John Boynton, and we all thought Shakespeare knew what he was doing!
April - Selections from How the Vote Was Won (an Anthology now out-of-print of Suffrage
Plays) compiled by Dale Spender and Carole Hayman via Methuen Theatrefile
May - Embracing the Undertoad by Robin Rice Lichtig -press release-
June - Solo Flights 3 works by Clementine Thomas, Elizabeth Simmons, and Monalisa Arias
July - Cottonmouth by Julianne Homokay.
August - -break-
September 3 and 10, The Spindle by Carolyn Gage
...special note...
(The Spindle will be read at the Kennedy Centers Page-to-Stage Festival in the North Atrium at 7:30 on the
3rd, and again at 1pm at Touchstone Gallery on the 10th with some alterations in casting)
October - Sor Juana by Cynthia Cooper
November - Juanita the Walrus Goes on a Shopping Spree by Deborah Randall
2005
August (at Sangha), Body Language by Patricia Mora
September 10, Lysistration by Deborah Lou Randall
October 8, JANE: ABORTION AND THE UNDERGROUND by Paula Kamen (A dramatic
documentary of Chicago's revolutionary abortion service and its roots, 1965-1973)
November 12, The Dover Test by D. Lee Miller
December 10, The Edible Woman by Dave Carley, based on the novel by Margaret
Atwood
click here for submission guidelines
Second Sunday's in 2006 were at 2pm (unless otherwise noted), Touchstone Gallery 406 7th
Street, NW 2nd Floor (across from Ticketplace) Wine and Chocolate provided, free to public
2006
January 14, Sappho in Love by Carolyn Gage
February 12, All My Silence Is Yours by Linda Suzuki
Sometimes love ends and nothing is left but sex. Sometimes pain ends and nothing is left but friendship.
Sometimes trust ends and nothing is left but forgiveness. Sometimes a single note ends and nothing is left
but silence. All My Silence Is Yours tells these four love stories – from end to beginning.
March 12, Venus Theatre/wRighting Women/ March Shorts Event featuring:
"The Gage and Mr. Comstock" by Carolyn Gage, we soon will all know what it means to throw down and
pick up the challenge.
"Tru Luv" by Cindy Cooper, parents will never understand this luv
"Near and Far" by Rich Espey, what happens when emails hide truth?
"Walking" by Karin Webb, ..."So I was a little drunk."
"Cold Reading" by Juliana Avery, and she thought botox was a good idea.
"The Mind-Body Connection" by Mary T. Lane, a wonderful dance
"Night Flight" by Cindy Marie Martin, asleep or awake?
untitled, by Terence Heffernan, observations of a nun
"Sakina" by Micheal Leicht, a trial that will break your heart
"O Brave New Girl" by Michael John Boynton, and we all thought Shakespeare knew what he was doing!
April - Selections from How the Vote Was Won (an Anthology now out-of-print of Suffrage
Plays) compiled by Dale Spender and Carole Hayman via Methuen Theatrefile
May - Embracing the Undertoad by Robin Rice Lichtig -press release-
June - Solo Flights 3 works by Clementine Thomas, Elizabeth Simmons, and Monalisa Arias
July - Cottonmouth by Julianne Homokay.
August - -break-
September 3 and 10, The Spindle by Carolyn Gage
...special note...
(The Spindle will be read at the Kennedy Centers Page-to-Stage Festival in the North Atrium at 7:30 on the
3rd, and again at 1pm at Touchstone Gallery on the 10th with some alterations in casting)
October - Sor Juana by Cynthia Cooper
November - Juanita the Walrus Goes on a Shopping Spree by Deborah Randall
2005
August (at Sangha), Body Language by Patricia Mora
September 10, Lysistration by Deborah Lou Randall
October 8, JANE: ABORTION AND THE UNDERGROUND by Paula Kamen (A dramatic
documentary of Chicago's revolutionary abortion service and its roots, 1965-1973)
November 12, The Dover Test by D. Lee Miller
December 10, The Edible Woman by Dave Carley, based on the novel by Margaret
Atwood
click here for submission guidelines