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Theatre NOVA is dedicated to raising awareness of the value and excitement of new plays and new playwrights in a diverse and expanding audience. We created the Michigan Playwrights Festival, a series of professionally acted and directed music stand readings, to nurture Michigan playwrights and to develop full-length plays. The MICHIGAN PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL will run September 11-14 at Theatre NOVA (410 W Huron St, Ann Arbor). Performances are Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 3pm and 8pm, and Sundays at 2 p.m. General admission tickets are $10 per performance, or $30 for a Festival Pass. Tickets may be purchased online at www.TheatreNOVA.org or in person one hour before each performance.
This year's festival:
“I Am A Sword” by Joseph Zettelmaier
Sept. 11 @ 8pm
Martine Lowe was an Olympic fencer until a brutal assault put her into a coma. Her recovery has been long and difficult, but she's managed to regain most of what she's lost. In hopes of returning to the competitive fencing world, she's begun training with Declan Teague, a man famous for his prestigious students and his unusual teaching methods. Martine moves in and out of reality as she faces the truth of what's happened to her and what it means to be a sword. Directed by Josie Herman. Cast: Brittany Batell, Jonathan Davidson, Andy Jones.
“Matrescence” by Jennifer Lane
Sept. 12 @ 8pm
Margot is an unmarried, pregnant, queer woman in her thirties, and she has to tell her ultraconservative Republican parents that she's having a baby. Using the structure of pregnancy, childbirth, and the fourth trimester, Matrescence is a story of motherhood in the modern era. Directed by CJ Williams. Cast: Bréon LaDawn, Princess Beyoncé Jones, Edward Colon, La’Paige, Larry Rink.
“Look at Me Now” by Jill Halpern
Sept. 13 @ 3pm
In this dramatic exploration of James Baldwin's quote "I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also much more than that— so are we all..." a yin-meets-yang lesbian couple, an orphaned Black teen, and a third-generation White supremacist on Death Row are all dutifully playing their assigned roles— or trying— when a brush with death calls each to break free from the prison of fixed identity, from habitual ways of seeing and being seen, and find the grace in becoming. Directed by Bryana Hall. Cast: Cassandra Svacha, Emily Wilson-Tobin, Trevor Maher, Evan Brown.
“Blue Star Highway” by Andrew Morton
Sept. 13 @ 8pm
Blue Star Highway is an exploration of love, secrecy, and the impact of choices across generations. In 1994, William, a closeted high school teacher, meets Ben in the lakeside town of Saugatuck, Michigan and begins to imagine a different kind of life. Thirty years later, William’s children and grandchild arrive in Saugatuck for a funeral and discover the life their father lived after he left them. As past and present collide, they are forced to confront the past and redefine the meaning of family. Directed by Kevin Keller. Cast: Sterling Orlowski, Mike Sandusky, Jordan Clime, AJ Dagenais.
“These My Queens” by Sarah Elisabeth Brown
Sept. 14 @ 2pm
A 90s baby dyke performance artist falls in love with a budding drag queen and questions her sexuality. Directed by Siri Quist. Cast: Cassius Merriweather, Laura Nguyen, Dirk Ever.
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410 W Huron St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Michigan 48103
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