Playwrights’ Theatre is a new theatre company dedicated to the works of new playwrights in Washington state and around the country. The theatre’s goal is to provide more opportunities for playwrights to develop new works for the stage.
In the Fall of 2012 Playwrights’ Theatre will present RIVER ICE, a new full-length play by Olympia writer Scott Timmons. Based on a true story, River Ice chronicles the last day of three Czech paratroopers who flew into Prague in 1942 to kill Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi puppet ruler appointed by Adolf Hitler after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia.
DAY AND NIGHT, the theatre’s inaugural production of new plays, was presented last fall. Severed Strings and Miss Dixie Makes A Deal, two new short plays by American writers, were presented at the Richard Hugo House theater on Capitol Hill in September 2011. The evening was called DAY AND NIGHT to illustrate the stark contrast between the two plays. In the first act was Miss Dixie Makes A Deal, a riotous farce about a young woman who is desperate to get married. Written by a teenage girl from a small town in Ohio, Miss Dixie Makes a Deal kept the audience in stitches. After the intermission was Severed Strings, a surrealistic drama about a female soldier, just returned to the States after serving in Iraq, who is attempting to put behind the horrors of war.
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