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Auditions, New Play Readings and Staged Readings

New Play Festival

Staged Readings

Staged Readings will be held in the Community Room in The Emporium Center, 100 South Gay Street, Knoxville.

Saving Grace by James McLinden Sat, Feb 9, 2:00 pm

Reunion Under The Moon by Craig Smith Sat, Feb 16, 2:00 pm

All staged readings are free to the public. For over ten years the Tennessee Stage Company has presented a New Play Festival including World Premiere performances as well as readings and staged readings of new, unproduced scripts. The playwright attends the readings and afterwards a discussion is held with the playwright, cast and audience on the script. All readings are free to the public.

We have two very special playwrights this year. Saving Grace is written by James McLindon the author of our 2006 New Play Festival featured production, Distant Music, which has subsequently been produced multiple times around the country.

Reunion Under The Moon is written by Knoxville writer Craig Smith who has been involved in the New Play Festival for years as an actor and play reader and is well known by local audiences.

Each playwright will be attending the staged reading of their play and will be part of the discussion afterwards. Come and hear the readings and meet these two distinguished playwrights.

Readings

All readings are free to the public.We are collaborating once again with the Knox County Library System to hold the readings downtown and in various branches in the library system. Overall we will hold seven readings in five different libraries during the two weeks from Jan. 22 – Feb. 2, 2008.

Doormat of Desire by Mike Farley.

Powell Library 6 pm Tuesday, Jan 22

Farragut Library 6 pm Thursday, Jan 24

West Knox Library 6 pm Monday, Jan 28

Downtown Library 3 pm Saturday, Feb 2

Church of Diminishing Marginal Returns by Jay Huling

Fountain City Library 2 pm Saturday, Jan 26

Downtown Library 12:30 pm Saturday, Feb 2

I Am The Way by Scott Strahan

Downtown Library 6:30 pm Thursday, Jan 31

 

Shakespeare on the Square
The 2008 SOS auditions for "Love's Labour's Lost" and "The Merchant of Venice" is Saturday March 15, 2008 from noon to 5:00PM at the Emporium, 100 S. Gay Street, Knoxville. The audition will consist of 2 monologues and must be classical. Please bring 2 headshots and 2 resumes. These auditions are by appointment only. Please call 546-4280 or email TSC.

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings."

--From Julius Caesar (I, ii, 140-141)