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As an ongoing part of the ArtsGym, Juggernaut Theatre Company  presents a series of workshops and readings of new plays. 

 

 

 

 

Laura Mae Has Something To Say

May 13, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Episcopal Actors Guild, 1 East 29th St, 2nd Floor (details below*)
Please email juggernauttheatrenyc@gmail.com if you are interested in attending.

by Michèle Raper Rittenhouse
Directed by Melissa Firlit
Featuring: Stevie Allen, Raife Baker, Craig Doležel, Lisa Dove, Breanna Foister

Laura Mae Missippi Delta imageLaura Mae is trying to make a place for herself in the Mississippi Delta just before and during the pandemic. She’s poor, loves two men for two different reasons, has no skills other than homemaking and raising children, has no children, and her husband was taken from her.  She is ostracized by her family and community.  What will she do?

* Guild Hall is located on the second floor of The Little Church Around the Corner at 1 East 29th Street. Enter through the Little Church gate and follow the left walkway through the garden to the entry.

 

 

 

 

Idiots At Play

April 2, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Episcopal Actors Guild, 1 East 29th St, 2nd Floor
Please email juggernauttheatrenyc@gmail.com if you are interested in attending.

An evening of short works by Seven Devils New Play Foundry/id Theater playwrights: Cathy Caplan, Robert Kerr, Dano Madden, Greg Paul, Michele Rittenhouse, and Brian Quirk.
Directed by: Melissa Firlit, David A. Miller and Chris Scott

Drawing of coniferous and deciduous trees with root systems, artist unknown.

 

 

 

 

Winter In Moscow
A semi-staged reading of a new play by Gregory Paul

May 22, 2023 at 8 PM
Episcopal Actors Guild, 1 East 29th St, 2nd Floor
Please email juggernauttheatrenyc@gmail.com if you are interested in attending.

Would-be writer William Froth arrives in 1933 Moscow  with one goal, to be part of the grand and glorious Soviet experiment. Bouncing from event to event in a whirlwind of food, drink and entertainments Bill soon finds himself outside the bounds of the Party approved itinerary, and discovers that this paradise has a hidden price tag.

Winter in Moscow flyer

 

Have You Seen Boomer?
By Robert Kerr

January 30, 2023 at 7 PM
Episcopal Actors Guild, 1 East 29th St, 2nd Floor
Please email juggernauttheatrenyc@gmail.com if you are interested in attending.

Have You Seen BoomerAs a couple endlessly rehashes arguments about a missing cat, a neglected fusebox, and an upcoming canoe outing, they confront secrets and hidden resentments and try to find an escape from their recursive marital purgatory.

Picture: Adapted by Joanna Fuhrman from Arthur Wesley Dow, Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers, 6th ed. (New York: The Baker and Taylor Company, 1905).

 

 

 

 

Mary/Hunter
by Brian Quirk

 

Our first reading will be Mary/Hunter by Brian Quirk on May 23, 2022 at 7pm.

Crow

A letter arrives and the past and present collide as a woman’s reality is turned upside down when she’s summoned to consider her life, her husband, and herself: something she never ever ever never thought possible.

 

Please email juggernauttheatrenyc@gmail.com if you are interested in attending.

Drawing of a crow by Pearson Scott Foresman.