The 2007/2008 WRITING ALOUD SEASON:
 
The Good Fight
The act of fighting is something every person does differently and for different reasons. In The Good Fight four writers tackle the ins and outs of establishing dominance over the opposition: How do we learn to fight, or even decide what’s worth fighting over? How does fighting affect the fighter? To what lengths will we go to dodge a fight and what happens when it can’t be avoided?
“The Boy”
written by Carol F. Dixon
read by Delante Keyes
A coming of age story about an adolescent boy
meeting his father for the first time and, as a result, beginning to learn how to be strong in conflict and
how to be a man.
“An Eye for a Tooth”
written by Vashti Bandy
read by Nako
Aondadoaji
Meet Sade, who is being haunted by her dead aunt. The
haunting sends her fiance out the door and pushes her to the bedside of her estranged dying mother
for one final haunting good-bye.
“The Corsican”
written by JB Traino
read by Aaron Cromie
In “The
Corsican” a pudgy pubescent boy takes his life into his hands by threatening the toughest
neighborhood bully with surprising results.
“Killer”
written by Tally Brennan
read
by Sara Valentine
“Killer” charts the homecoming of Daphne, with her partner Lisa in tow, as the two
of them land smack dab back in the middle of the macabre fight Daphne’s been having with her ferocious mother Virginia ever since she was a little girl.
Waiting Around, Moving On
Monday, December 10, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
There is something oddly related between the frustration of having to wait and the exertion required to act. The five short stories in Waiting Around, Moving On examine the tensions that arise when people grapple with holding patterns and the struggles inherent to transitions. When the relative speed of our time or the trajectory of our motion are not entirely within our control, we often finding ourselves asking, “What are we waiting for and why don’t we just move on?”
“Before the Move”
written by Thaddeus Rutkowski
read by Jeb Kraeger
The story of a break-up, complete with accusations, boxes of ex-girlfriends’ stuff, and pornographic videos.
“Mirrors”
written by John Thompson
read by Ellen Tobie
Both Darlene and her mother-in-law have secrets and veiled desires that get harder and harder to hide as they near the first moments of the new year.
“Blue Eyes”
written by Jennifer Williamson
read by Charlotte Northeast (Barrymore Award-winner from InterAct's SKIN IN FLAMES)
“Blue Eyes” introduces us to Lynda, who leaves her abusive boyfriend after he proposes to her, but then finds herself in a shelter for battered women nursing her bruises and wrestling with how to go forward or whether to go back.
“Russian Wind”
written by Harry Humes
read by Jeb Kraeger
A haunting and evocative story, almost like a fairy tale, of a young boy in a coal town waiting out a storm with his mother and small brother, hoping for his father’s return and mystified by the magic of his strong mother and the force of the wind and rain.
“Red Stain Yellow Dress”
written by Julia MacDonell
read by Mary McCool
“Red Stain Yellow Dress” follows a girl who calls herself Serena to Washington DC to get an illegal abortion in 1968. As Serena travels on the greyhound, sits in the waiting room, and finally boards the bus back home again, she reminisces about her past and tries to envision her future.
What Work Is
Work. Almost everyone does it. Often for money. Sometimes for love. Some in prestigious professions. Others simply hold jobs. But no matter what we might do for a living, everyday living requires a vast range of work. In What Work Is three authors offer their varied impressions of work, both as a part of day-to-day life and as a necessary part of human relations.
“The Sycamore Tree”
written by William Hoffman
“Cat Care”
written by Maggie Fay
“Fixing Things”
written by R.A. Lopata
The Art of Losing
Our car keys, our hair, a game, some weight. A job, our pride, our innocence, a loved one. Some losses are more important than others, yet each carries consequences. Each is an education in control… or the loss thereof. This evening’s Writing Aloud features three stories exploring the one thing everyone, no matter how we may try to avoid it, must learn: The Art of Losing.
Featuring:
“Shell Game with Organs”
written by Jacob M. Appel
“Losing in General”
written by Randall Brown
“The Tennis Partner”
written by Alix Ohlin
Comings and Goings
Comings and Goings is an evening of leave-takings and homecomings. Each of the four featured stories takes a thoughtful look at what it means to take off, go out, set forth, depart, as well as what it means to return, enter, revisit, arrive – all carefully balanced against what happens in between
“The Way In”
written by Patrick Madden
“Mere Pennies”
written by Nancy Cathers Demme
“Return to Ithaca”
written by Christine Flanagan
“How to Make Flan”
written by Amina Gautier
The Whole Wide World
We’ve all heard them... in fact, we’ve all told them, those stories that end with, “… it just goes to show you how small the world really is.” But with each story comes an uneasy and equally astounding feeling that the world is actually so large it’s incomprehensible. Foreignness and travel, immigrants and tourists, language barriers and love stories. The three revealing stories in The Whole Wide World introduce characters who learn, each in a very unique way, how truly big and strange the world can be.
“Songbird”
written by Rayne Debski
“Brancacci Chapel”
written by David Sanders
“Cross-Cultural Studies”
written by Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva
Writing Aloud performances are held on the mainstage at
The Adrienne, 2030 Sansom Street, Philadelphia.
Tickets are $10.00 for InterAct subscribers or $15.00 for general admission seating.
Subscriptions are available for only $10.00 per event.
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