Clockwise from prime left: Donja R. Love, Charlie Oh, Omer Abbas Salem, Jeffrey Lieber, Nancy García Loza, and Gina Femia.
CHICAGO: The Goodman Theatre has introduced the lineup for its 18th annual 2022 New Stages Festival, to be held Dec. 1-18, that includes two totally staged developmental productions and 4 script-in-hand staged readings of works by six up to date playwrights. Tickets can be found to the general public freed from cost.
This 12 months’s performs embrace This Happened Once on the Romance Depot off the I-87 in Westchester by Gina Femia, directed by Kimberly Senior. The play issues the unlikely relationship between a retailer proprietor and a faculty trainer and forces them to confront what they assume they find out about love, romance, and intercourse.
Rust, written by Nancy García Loza and directed by Laura Alcalá Baker, tells the story of a younger lady struggling to be the proper Mexican daughter regardless of her obtrusive imperfections.
White Monkey, written by Charlie Oh and directed by Eric Ting, tells the story of a lady working a “rent-a-foreigner” company to assist Chinese companies seeking to enhance their worldwide status.
Fever Dreams (of Animals on the Verge of Extinction), written by Jeffrey Lieber and directed by Susan V. Booth, is a romance and thriller play a few couple seeking to rekindle their relationship whereas celebrating their anniversary in a distant cabin.
Modern Women, written by Omer Abbas Salem and directed by Lavina Jadhwani, follows the lives of a number of generations of Arab and Indian associates who discover consolation and routine at a magnificence salon a quiet Skokie strip mall.
What Will Happen to All That Beauty?, written by Donja R. Love and directed by Malika Oyetimein, is an providing to the neighborhood of Black folks residing with HIV/AIDS, exploring questions of legacy, household, and therapeutic towards the backdrop of the AIDS disaster of the Eighties and its imprints as we speak.
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