New Voices @ New Rep, now in its third year, is a series of staged readings dedicated to introducing our audiences to emerging playwrights and bringing their attention to new works by established writers. All readings are free and open to the public. Many of the shows read in this series have gone on to be a part of our Mainstage season. Some of those scripts include Beast on the Moon, Orson’s Shadow, The Ice-Breaker, and Thomas Gibbons’ new political drama A House With No Walls, which will be a part of our 2007-2008 Mainstage season. More info
New Voices @ New Rep 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008 @ 7:30pm
Body Politic
By Jessica Goldberg
Monday, February 11, 2008 @ 7:30pm
Unbleached
By Michael Aman
Monday, February 25, 2008 @ 7:30pm
The Oil Thief
By Joyce Van Dyke
All Readings are FREE and open to the public.
A $10 suggested donation will help cover the costs of this program.
Please reserve your tickets ahead of time by calling the Box Office at 617-923-8487 or emailing tickets@newrep.org
Monday, January 28, 2008 @ 7:30pm
Body Politic
By Jessica Goldberg
Directed by M. Bevin O’Gara
Featuring Marianna Bassham, Georgia Lyman, and Timothy John Smith
Part of the National New Play Network
How can you tell an unbiased story when you get dangerously close to your subject? Posing as a researcher, Wendy, a Hollywood screenwriter, attempts to infiltrate an army medical center in the hopes of interviewing injured Iraqi war veterans for her next film. Barring her entrance is Captain Gray Whitrock, an unyielding patriot who, even after losing his foot in the war, returned for a second tour of duty. Through Wendy’s interactions with Gray and his pregnant wife, Lydia, the convictions of all three are called into question, as they struggle with love, duty, honor and sacrifice in a world of perpetual conflict, both at home and abroad.
Monday, February 11, 2008 @ 7:30pm
Unbleached
By Michael Aman
Directed by Maura Tighe
Featuring Johnny Lee Davenport and Dee Nelson
Stricken with tuberculosis, Ernest Hogan, an African-American entertainer, hires Sharon Flynn, a saucy Irish immigrant, to care for and amuse him through his sickness. However, her spirit turns out to be more then he bargained for. Contempt blossoms into love as the pair struggles to reach an understanding of the other’s race and gender. Ripe with relevance, Michael Aman’s play scrutinizes racism in the entertainment industry with this charming story of two people reeling with regret over the life they’ve been given and the one that was withheld.
Monday, February 25, 2008 @ 7:30pm
The Oil Thief
By Joyce Van Dyke
Directed by Bridget O’Leary
Featuring Jason Bowen, Rachel Harker, and Peter Edmund Haydu
This new work by New Rep favorite, Joyce Van Dyke, taps a well of emotion and confusion in Amy, a disillusioned geologist who is seeking to unearth some new excitement in her life and distance herself from her stagnant career. When her family-friend and industry compatriot, Aleksi, confesses his love for her, Amy wonders if an affair is what she needs. The two, along with Rex, Amy’s long-term lover, explore the fissures and ridges in their relationship, hoping to exhume some happiness and meaning from the remnants.
Read about it in The Boston Globe
All Readings are FREE and open to the public.
A $10 suggested donation will help cover the costs of this program.
Please reserve your tickets ahead of time by calling the Box Office at 617-923-8487 or emailing tickets@newrep.org
New Voices @ New Rep is an integral part of our mission, as it affords playwrights the opportunity to see their work read by professional actors for the first time. Staged readings are performed without any theatrical devices such as sets and costumes so that the audience and, more importantly, the playwright can focus on the script. Writers have the unique opportunity during readings to see their play performed so that they can return to it and develop it further. Each reading is followed by a talkback with the playwright where the audience offers feedback on the script, giving them a chance to help develop a new play.
We receive a few hundred new scripts each year, and New Voices also helps us evaluate some of the top plays under consideration for our next season of Mainstage and Downstage @ New Rep shows. All readings are directed and performed by New Rep artists.
Admission to all New Voices @ New Rep readings is FREE. Seating is limited, so reservations are encouraged. Call New Rep's Box Office at 617-923-8487, or e-mail tickets@newrep.org.
Script Submissions
New Repertory Theatre accepts unsolicited script submissions from agencies in the United States‚ Canada‚ and the UK. We do not accept unsolicited submissions from writers without an agent, but exceptions are made for writers from within the New England area. Only full scripts are accepted; no queries‚ summaries‚ or sample pages‚ please. Scripts will be returned to writers who include a self-addressed stamped envelope with their submission. Due to the large number of submissions New Repertory Theatre receives, we ask for a 12 month reading period for all scripts.
Scripts should be sent to:
New Repertory Theatre
ATTN: M. Bevin O’Gara, Artistic Associate
200 Dexter Avenue
Watertown, MA 02472