SPATTER PATTERN: or How I Got Away with It

Written by Neal Bell
Directed by Jim Petosa

A screenwriter  becomes entangled in the life of a university professor
under investigation for a grisly murder. What begins as self-interest soon
gives way to empathy, and a bond between men from seemingly opposite
worlds inexorably deepens.
The title comes from forensic medicine, describing the direction in which blood has spurted from a fatal wound.

 

AND, a summer capstone: THE 25 ON 25 EVENT 

a daylong celebration of PTP/NYC’S 25^TH ANNIVERSARY on Monday July 25th

with new work by playwrights emerging and known

(All writers, directors and actors are graduates of

Middlebury College)

Atlantic Stage 2, 330 West 16^th Street: FREE!

 

1:00 pm Brakeman's Light

by Noah Mease

Directed by Rebecca Wear

with  Ele Woods, Christo Grabowski, Cori Hundt, Mike Kessler

stage directions: Eric Marlin

A group of not-quite-adults in a nowhere town search for the mysterious light they may have seen in the woods when they were childhood friends.

2:00 Playing At War

Created and performed by David Malinsky
The year is 1776. New York City, a small garrison-town, is under occupation by the British Army after years of fighting amongst the City’s political factions….the occupiers show a particular kindness by reopening the City’s old theatre.. The soldiers say their plays are for a charitable cause. But is there a more sinister purpose? And what does General George Washington think of all this?

 2:45 pm House Improvements

by Emily Feldman

Directed by Alec Strum

with Lucas Kavner, Andrew Zox, Julia Proctor

Rishabh Kashyap, Adam Milano, Sasha Hirsch

stage directions: Gillian Durkee

When President Rutherford B. Hayes welcomes the first telephone to the White House, the possibilities for bringing his states and citizens closer together seem limitless.  To everyone but him.

 3:15 pm Matilda and the Bald Man

by Willie Orbison

Directed by Alec Strum

with Peter B. Schmitz and Meghan Nesmith

 When Matilda wakes up in the afterlife, all she finds is a Bald Man.

 

 430 pm The Rwandans’ Visit

by Daniel Sauermilch

Directed by Michole Biancosino

with Aidan Sullivan, Michael Wrynn Doyle, Cassidy Freeman,

 James Matthew Ryan

stage directions: Lindsey Messmore

When two dysfunctional married couples at a dinner party discuss the  fate of two Rwandan exchange students who
disappeared earlier that day, the conversation takes a hilarious turn  for the worse.  A play about social class, race, and diversity, "The  Rwandans' Visit" is a darkly comic look at what it means to be authentic.

6:00     It’s Not Easy Being

by Jake Jeppson

Directed by Kate Pines

with Christian Parker, Adam Ludwig, Lily Balsen,

Michaela Lieberman, Willy McKay

On the eve of a massive protest in Washington, DC, a troubled man welcomes the ghost of Jim Henson to his house to help him with a new arts and crafts project.

 

7:00 I’ll be There for You

written and performed by David Barlow

David Barlow tells a true story of his harrowing and hilarious encounter with a woman who is beyond blotto.

 

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7:30 pm      selections from The Marriage Play

written and directed by John Kolvenbach

with Alex Draper, Lynn Hawley, Lilli Stein, Mat Nakitare

stage directions: Emily Rosenkrantz

A backstage comedy about a veteran actor trying to keep his marriage from falling apart.

 

8:45pm      selections from Just for Now/All That Lies Ahead

By Daphne Francesca Gil

with Vanessa Branch

wry looks at women navigating the 21^st century

 

9:15pm selections from The Watershed Examinations

by Andy Mitton and Jesse Holland

with Ana Reeder

snatches of a future where kids are the state’s choice

 

9:45 pm   selections from The Body of an American

by Dan O’Brien

Directed by Christian Parker

with Alex Draper, Andrew Zox

War reporter Paul Watson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of a fallen American soldier in the streets of Mogadishu in 1993, has witnessed some of the most devastating scenes in modern history. As the ghosts of tragedies he’s recorded bear down on him, he crosses paths with playwright Dan O’Brien, who’s battling ghosts of his own. In locations as varied as Kabul, Los Angeles and the Canadian High Arctic, the two men form a tentative friendship in a quest for absolution.

 

 10:30 pm How I Saved America - Parts 1-4

Written and Directed by Dana Yeaton

A solo show featuring Sheyenne Brown as the young firebrand who declares her own "One-Woman March" to fix what's wrong with this damned country.