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Twenty nine plays in nine days!!! Buy a $4 button and step into the theatrical maelstrom of the Orlando Festival of New Plays.Workshops, readings, master classes, celebrity playwrights, guest theaters, food, drink, cabaret, karaoke, and a kitchen sink!!
When: November 1 – 9, 2003
Where: At the John and Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center, Orlando, Florida
Price: PlayFest Button - $4 (You must have a PlayFest Button to attend any PlayFest event)
All Staged Readings FREE with PlayFest Button
All Workshop and Fringe Reloaded Perf. $8 with PlayFest Button
How: To order tickets call (407) 447-1700 ext. 1 Sponsored by: 
The following listing of events shows all productions in alphabetical order by title and category of mainstage production, workshop, reading, or special event. Click here for a Daily Calendar of Events. MAINSTAGE PRODUCTIONS
| Title, Author, Description | Presenter, Times, Venues | Dracula:
The Journal of Jonathan Harker By Jim Helsinger
See the Festival's very first world premiere production in it's special return engagement (part of 15th anniversary season celebration). Terror lurks in the darkest corners of your mind in this one man tour-de-force production!
weblink: Dracula |  Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival
October 16 - November 23 Wed, Thur at 7:00pm
Fri, Sat at 8:00pm
Sun at 2:00 and 7:00pm | WORKSHOP PRODUCTIONS
Admission: $8 with PlayFest Button – Reservations recommended | Title, Author, Description | Presenter, Times, Venues | Isadora By David A. McElroy
A play about the life, love and art of Isadora Duncan, the legendary innovator of modern dance. | Southern Winds TheaterAll performances in Studio B
1. Thursday 11/6 – 9:00 - 11:30 pm
2. Friday 11/7 – 6:15 - 8:45 pm
3. Saturday 11/8 – 8:00 - 10:30 pm
4. Sunday 11/9 – 6:00 - 9:30 pm | Book and lyrics by Brett Nicholson
Music by Hans Vollrath
There is one man who can destroy London. There is one man who can stop him. A compelling new original musical based on the characters of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. website: www.holmesthemusical.com | All performances in Studio D .
1. Saturday 11/1 – 8:00 - 10:30 pm
2. Sunday 11/2 – 9:00 - 11:30 pm
3. Monday 11/3 – 9:00 - 11:30 pm
4. Tuesday 11/4 – 6:15 - 8:45 pm | Trapezium By Henry Rathvon
A diabolically clever dramatization of the Tristan and Iseult story from three points of view … in iambic pentameter. | Orlando-UCF Shakespeare FestivalAll performances in Studio B
1. Saturday 11/1 – 3:45 - 6:15 pm
2. Sunday 11/2 – 6:15 - 8:45 pm
3. Monday 11/3 – 6:15 - 8:45 pm
4. Tuesday 11/4 – 9:00 - 11:30 pm | The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge By Mark Brown
The author of Around the World in Eighty Days puts a new spin on A Christmas Carol in this metaphysical courtroom comedy. | Orlando-UCF Shakespeare FestivalAll performances in Studio D
1. Thursday 11/6 – 6:15 - 8:45 pm
2. Friday 11/7 – 9:00 - 11:30 pm
3. Saturday 11/8 – 4:30 - 7:00 pm
4. Sunday 11/9 – 2:00 - 4:30 pm | READINGS
Admission: FREE! with PlayFest Button | Title, Author, Description | Presenter, Times, Venues | Compromise By Israel Horovitz
As a doctor closes in on a cancer cure he is forced to face the compromises he has made along the way. | Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival*Special Event * One Reading Only!
Sat 11/8 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm - Margeson | By William Shakespeare
Rarely performed work recently attributed to Shakespeare.
weblink: http://www.cas.ucf.edu/theatre/ |  UCF Conservatory Theatre
Reading 1: Sat 11/1 – 8:00-10:30 pm- Margeson
Reading 2: Sun 11/9 – 1:45 pm - 4:15 pm - Margeson | Hammy Does Denmark By John Goring
Spoof of Hamlet with a contemporary flare.
weblink: http://www.playwrightsroundtable.org/ |  Playwright’s Round Table
Rding 1: Sat 11/1 – 2 - 4:30 pm - Studio D
Reading 2: Wed 11/5 – 6:15 - 8:45 pm - Margeson | Kraken By Len Jenkin
A bittersweet account of the only known meeting between Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. | Orlando-UCF Shakespeare FestivalReading 1: Sun 11/2 - 2:00 - 4:30 pm - Studio B
Reading 2: Wed 11/5 - 6:15 - 8:45 pm - Studio B | The Lives of Bosie By John Wolfson
Oscar Wilde’s former lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, confronts his younger self , “Bosie”, in an attempt to reconcile the contradictory aspects of his life. | Orlando-UCF Shakespeare FestivalReading 1: Wed 11/5 – 9:00 - 11:30 pm - Margeson
Reading 2: Sat 11/8 – 1:45 - 4:15 pm - Goldman | Oedipus at the Crossroads By Martin Coren
In spite of hilarious attempts to avoid his fate, Oedipus finds himself, again and again, standing at the crossroads. | Orlando-UCF Shakespeare FestivalReading 1: Sat 11/1 – 4:15 - 6:45 pm - Goldman
Reading 2: Tue 11/4 – 9:00 - 11:30 pm - Goldman | By Barry McKinley
The road ends. An old man dies. The devil takes his due.
weblink: http://www.invictustc.com |  Invictus T.C.
Reading 1: Mon 11/3 – 9:00 - 11:30 pm - Margeson
Reading 2: Thu 11/6 – 6:15 - 8:45 pm - Margeson | By Ken Towery
Musical/fantasy about two cousins who disagree on the purpose of college: learning versus partying.
weblink: http://www.peoplestheatre.org/ |  The People’s Theatre
Reading 1: Tue 11/4 – 6:30 - 8:25 pm - Margeson
Reading 2: Fri 11/7 – 9:00 - 11:30 pm - Margeson | By Paul Kiernan
Outrageous comedy by the author of Noodling Inspiration and The Little Prince.
weblink: http://www.otp.cc |  Orlando Theatre Project
Reading 1: Mon 11/3 – 6:15 - 8:45 pm - Goldman
Reading 2: Fri 11/7 – 6:15 - 8:45 pm - Margeson | Twelve Ophelias By Caridad Svich
Ophelia returns from the dead to settle some scores in this passionate and poetic deconstruction of Hamlet. | Orlando-UCF Shakespeare FestivalReading 1: Sun 11/2 – 9:00 - 11:30 pm - Margeson
Reading 2: Wed 11/5 – 6:15 - 8:45 pm - Studio D |
THEATER FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES READINGS | The Pharaoh’s New Robes By April-Dawn Gladu
Musical adventure based on The Emperor’s New Clothes and the true life of the Egyptian Princess Hatshepsut. | Orlando-UCF Shakespeare FestivalReading 1: Sat 11/1 – 12:30 - 1:30 pm - Margeson
Reading 2: Sun 11/9 – 1:30 - 2:30 pm - Studio B | It’s a Jungle Out There By Fern Matthews
Children’s musical in which a young zebra loses her stripes and goes on journey of self-discovery. | Orlando-UCF Shakespeare FestivalReading 1: Sun 11/2 – 3:00 - 4:00pm - Margeson
Reading 2: Sat 11/8 – 12:30 - 1:30 pm - Studio D |
!!FRINGE RELOADED!!
(Revised versions of new plays from the Orlando International Fringe Festival)
Admission: $8 with PlayFest Button – Reservations recommended | Title, Author, Description | Presenter, Times, Venues | Dead Man Flying By Eric Hissom
Dark comedy about a man whose life passes before his eyes while in the midst of a dream. | Hair Trigger ProductionsAll performances in Studio B
1. Saturday 11/1 – 8:30 - 10:00 pm
2. Monday 11/3 – 9:15 - 10:45 pm
3. Tuesday 11/4 – 7:00 - 8:30 pm
4. Friday 11/7 – 9:15 - 10:45 pm
5. Saturday 11/8 –5:00 - 6:30 pm | By Rocky Hopson and Rob Houle
A surreal musical journey set in 1930's Paris, France, recounting the mysterious life of Baptiste the Clown.
Website link: www.laputain.com |  B. O. B. (theatrical palindrome)
All performances in Studio D
1. Saturday 11/1 – 5:00 - 6:30 pm
2. Sunday 11/2 – 7:00 - 8:30 pm
3. Tuesday 11/4 – 9:15 - 10:45 pm
4. Thursday 11/6 – 9:15 - 10:45 pm
5. Saturday 11/8 –8:30 - 10:00 pm | Mr. Story and the Supposed Gauguin By Tod Kimro
A mysterious story of art, sexuality and self-deception inspired by the work and life of painter, Paul Gauguin. | All performances in Studio D
1. Sunday 11/2 – 4:45 - 6:15 pm
2. Monday 11/3 – 7:00 - 8:30 pm
3. Wednesday 11/5 – 9:15 - 10:45 pm
4. Friday 11/7 – 6:30 - 8:00 pm
5. Sunday 11/9 –6:30 - 8:00 pm | SPECIAL EVENTS AT PLAYFEST! | Special Event | Times, Venues, Cost | MASTER CLASS FOR PLAYWRIGHTS Award winning playwrights, Israel Horovitz and Len Jenkin present dynamic master classes in the craft. | Jenkin - Saturday 11/1 - 1-3pm (Goldman)
Horovitz - Sunday 11/9 - 3-5pm (Studio B)
Cost: $75 each, $120 for both
To register email at erich@shakespearefest.org | PLAYWRIGHT’S PANELS Award winning playwrights Israel Horovitz and Len Jenkin will join a panel of emerging playwrights to discuss playwriting and the importance of new play development. | All panel discussions in the Margeson Theater Admission FREE! With PlayFest Button
Panel 1: Jenkin - Saturday 11/1 - 7-7:45pm -
Panel 2: Horovitz - Saturday 11/8 – 7:00-7:45pm -
| SAK Comedy Lab Rats appear and create one-minute masterpieces before your very eyes!
weblink: http://www.sak.com/ |  When and Where you least expect it!
All FREE! | VOICE MAIL PLAYS Choose 1-5 minute audio plays from voice mail options and enter the exciting and voyeuristic world of VOICE MAIL PLAYS. | At your leisure
On phones in Shakespeare Center Lobby
All FREE! | PARTIES!! Eat, drink, schmooze, see mystery guest artists perform their newest stuff!! | Both Saturday nights!
11/1 and 11/8 – 10:30p to Midnight Multiple locations throughout Shakespeare Center! |
More Playlab Throughout the Year!In addition to the Festival of New Plays, our PlayLab Program will continue its monthly reading series with readings on the second Monday of every month (except November) from September through April at 7:00pm Interested in Volunteering or Submitting for the Festival?Contact Eric Hissom at erich@shakespearefest.org For More InformationFor more information on our Playlab Program, click on PlayLab. |
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