Now in its fourth year, Bedlam’s DO MORE: NEW PLAYS readings series returns with five thrilling new pieces of theater. All performances for the series will take place at the West End Theatre (263 W 86th St). All five readings are free with RSVP, and as always there is great stuff here.
Curated by Associate Artistic Director Zachary Elkind, DO MORE: NEW PLAYS has developed work by writers including Zora Howard, Julian Hornik, Emily Gardner Xu Hall, Stefani Kuo, Eleanor Burgess, a.k. payne, Zack Fine, Emily Breeze, Rachel Vail, Daniel K. Isaac, Adrienne Dawes, and Bailey Williams, as well as Talene Monahon‘s The Good John Proctor and Zuzanna Szadkowski and Deb Knox‘s Fall River Fishing, both of which were ultimately produced in Bedlam’s Spring 2023 season. Bedlam is proud to create a home for the messy, necessary work of creating the next generation of classic plays.
The DO MORE: NEW PLAYS series of 2024 will feature:
THIS IS WHAT THE DAYS ARE
March 25, 2024, at 7pm at the West End TheatreBy Madison FiedlerDirected by Francesca Sabel
Featuring Moe Angelos, John Behlmann, Kayli Carter, Peter Francis James, Deidre Staples, and Nicole Villamil
THIS IS WHAT THE DAYS ARE follows a back-to-the-land community of grievers as they plant perennials and slaughter pigs and face the task of living as the left-behind.RESERVE YOUR TICKET
TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTHApril 29, 2024, at 7pm at the West End Theatre
By Renae Simone JarrettDirected by Kate WhoriskeyCasting to be announced at a later date.
Two sisters get lost in the woods and in the murkiness of their misremembered histories.RESERVE YOUR TICKET
WHORE AND WIFEMay 12, 2024, at 4pm at the West End Theatre
By Emily BreezeDirected by Zachary ElkindWHORE AND WIFE is a high-camp farce about a brothel on the brink in 1802 in Dendermonde, Flanders. Hijinks, bodily horrors, and hilarity ensue.RESERVE YOUR TICKET
SUPPOSED HOMEMay 6th, 2024, at 7pm at the West End Theatre
By Sam HamashimaShiyoko left the Japanese American Concentration Camps a long time ago, but a part of her stays in the desert. With questions from a curious grandson, Shiyoko’s world becomes split into dueling realities of truth, fiction, anime, and realism. Past and present become one landscape in this epic as enemies are revealed, companions are found, trauma is unpacked, and what was only thought becomes (un)spoken word. A poetic impression from the grandchild of the imprisoned, SUPPOSED HOME brings a new piece of the puzzle that is the Japanese American experience.RESERVE YOUR TICKET
DIARY OF WARJune 2, 2024, at 2pm at the West End Theatre
Diaries collected by Daria KolomiecDirected by Zuzanna Szadkowski
A collection of first-hand accounts of the invasion in Ukraine from people across the country and from different walks of life, performed by the members of Bedlam’s Veterans Outreach program along with Bedlam company members.RESERVE YOUR TICKET