Monday July 11, 2022
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The Red Bull Theater will present eight world premiers at their annual Short New Play Festival, Monday June 11 in the West Village. This year’s festival features new commissioned plays by Larissa FastHorse (The Thanksgiving Play) and by Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis (Between Riverside and Crazy) plus six plays from up-and-coming playwrights: Montana Cypress, Debra Fried, Kevin P. Joyce, Nick Martorelli & Justin Muschong, Zoë Rhulen, and Elaine Romero.
THE PLAYS
And There Shall Be No More Tears
by Montana Cypress
As the U.S. Cavalry approaches, a Medicine Man rushes to concoct a remedy to save his people.
With Visible Breath
by Larissa FastHorse
Inspired by one of the oldest stories of the L/D/Nakota people, Pté Sán Wínyan has been sent from the spiritual world to Earth on a quest to help the people who will be known as the Oceti Sakowin
Another Part of the Green Room
by Debra Fried
Orson Welles, in the figure of Mercury, finds a trio of Elizabethan actors who have magically transformed into the very roles they play (within the play) in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and recruits them for his 1937 Mercury Theatre production of Faustus.
Cancel Me
by Stephen Adly Guirgis
An ancient King summons a long ago banished Alchemist to transmutate his greatest and worst possession – his son.
Vulgar Gold
by Kevin P. Joyce
Bitter Rosetta uses an alchemical elixir to seduce her sister’s husband with chaotic results.
Make Gold of That
by Nick Martorelli and Justin Muschong
A man arrives for his appointment with a modern Alchemist, where he meets other customers with items they want the Alchemist to transmute into the most valuable resource in the modern world: Time.
Medusa Prays
by Zoë Rhulen
Medusa, having just turned her most recent lover to stone, begs Athena to reverse her curse.
Prosperita
by Elaine Romero
Prosperita has the unique gift of folding and understanding both time and war. Her inner transformation calls her to action as she prepares herself to intervene in a most brutal war.
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