Friday, February 9, and Saturday, February 10, 7:30 p.m.
QC Theatre Workshop, 1730 Wilkes Avenue, Davenport IA
After receiving dozens of national and local entries for its second-annual contest, the QC Theatre Workshop will present the six winners and finalists in the company's 2018 Susan Glaspell Playwriting Festival during a special two-part event, with readings of three different scripts performed on two successive nights.
Named after Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Davenport native Glaspell, this year's festival begins on February 9 with original scripts cited in the “Local Adult Category”: competition winner Alone, written by Alexander Richardson, and finalist Through the Fence, written by Jason Platt. Directed by Jordan McGinnis, Alone will feature castmates Lis Athas, Kyle DeFauw, Jessica Holzknecht, Steven Mondloch, and Jo Vasquez, while writer/director Platt's Through the Fence stars Workshop veterans Angela Rathman and Jessica Taylor. The evening will also include director Calvin Vo's staged reading of “Local Youth Category” victor Rigid Image by Roger Pavey Jr., a frequent performer with Davenport Junior Theatre.
On February 10, the featured scripts will include “Local Adult Category” finalist Eddy's Girls by Augustana College student Emma Brutman, whose original script The Lilith Play was this category's winner in 2017, along with “National Category” co-winners In the Buff by Coco Mault and Max Sparber and I Await the Devil's Coming by Dierdre Girard. Directed, respectively, by Brutman, Athas, and the Workshop's Artistic Director Tyson Danner, Emma's Girls will feature Lena Hann, Kelly Hill, and Augustana theatre professor Shelley Cooper, In the Buff stars DeFauw and Haley Teel, and I Await the Devil's Coming boasts Workshop veterans Mike King and Sara Tubbs.
The 2018 Susan Glaspell Playwriting Festival readings begin at 7:30 p.m. and are being presented under the Workshop's “Pay What It's Worth” pricing policy in which guests see the plays first and then pay afterward. For more information and tickets, call 563-823-8893 or visit QCTheatreWorkshop.org.
