March 8 Is Next Installment of West Hartford’s ‘Playwrights on Park’ Reading Series
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Playwright Gabriel Jason Dean. Submitted photo
Gabriel Jason Dean will read his next work, ‘Something Quiet,’ at West Hartford’s Playhouse on Park.
Playwright Gabriel Jason Dean. Submitted photo
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Join Playhouse on Park in designating the Greater Hartford area as a premiere destination for the cultivation of innovative theatrical work! The Playwrights on Park Reading Series was created for this very purpose, and our next evening in this exciting series is Tuesday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m. with Gabriel Jason Dean’s Something Quiet.
The mission of Playwrights on Park is to produce original plays and musicals, therefore fostering emerging and established playwrights. Each reading features a new work, where audience members participate in a talk back session with the playwright, director and cast members. Audience members are also provided with response cards at the end of each reading.
Something Quiet focuses on the relationship between Jayce and Redwine, a lesbian couple living together in a cozy Brooklyn co-op. Their best friend, Marco, is a goldstar and an eternal PhD candidate in Art History at Columbia. When DOMA is overturned, Jayce surprises Redwine by popping the question. And to her surprise, Redwine refuses. Their right to be together tears them apart, leaving Marco without the company of his two best friends, until he comes up with a plan to get them back together. Thus ensues a hilarious interrogation of queer coupling and what it means to defy or define one’s self by that which we deem the status quo. Set on a rooftop in Brooklyn, Something Quiet is a sexy, romantic comedy about the many ways we define family and choosing love over politics.
Gabriel Jason Dean has been produced or developed at New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club,McCarter Theatre, The Flea, Oregon Shakespeare, The Kennedy Center, Gabriel’s play IN BLOOM (formerly Bacha Bazi, Boy Play), was a finalist for the Laurents / Hatcher Award, received the Kennedy Center’s Paula Vogel Prize, and was Runner-Up for the Princess Grace Award. Other awards include the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the Dramatist’s Guild Fellowship and the Sallie B. Goodman / McCarter Theatre Fellowship. His scripts are published through Samuel French, Dramatic Publishing and Playscripts.
For tickets, please call our box office at 860-523-5900 x10, or visit www.playhouseonpark.org. All tickets are $5 each, general admission. Playhouse on Park is located at 244 Park Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06119
