Squeaky Bicycle’s Reading Lab is back, and we have some awesome pieces to show you! Our Reading Lab was created to focus on helping emerging playwrights develop new work. This year, we’re featuring two fantastic new plays: Dylan Lamb’s Alligator Summer and Christina Gorman’s Far From the Trees.
As audience members, you are invaluable. Not only will you get the chance to see staged readings of two promising new scripts, but you will also be able to help in the development process by participating in a short talkback (complete with wine!). With your help, we’ll be able to get these shows ready for fully-staged productions.
Sunday, February 17 at 7 PM
Alligator Summer
by Dylan Lamb
Tennessee Williams gets absurd in this dark-dark-darkly comic memory play of a closeted pre-pubescent, Antietam Julep, coming of age during a reptilian apocalypse in 1940s Louisiana. With wit, gore, sentiment, idiocy, archetypes, accents, and Gators, Alligator Summer is the guiltiest of pleasures for the sadist freak in all of us.
Featuring:
Nicholas Yenson*
Bryan Marshall
Sharon Hunter*
John Say*
Annalisa Loeffler*
Nathan Brisby*
Laura Ramadei
Jeff Johnson
Directed by:
Brandi Varnell
February 25 at 7 PM
Far From the Trees
by Christina Gorman
A middle-aged widower learns his beloved forest of petrified trees, which he has spent years painstakingly unearthing, is priceless. He can save his family from bottomless debt if only he will sell. Why then, can’t he let go?
Featuring:
William Kozy
Kelly Kay Griffith*
Sergio LoDolce
Brandi Varnell*
Mark A. Keeton*
Jeff Johnson
Directed by:
Kathryn McConnell
Both readings hosted by
The Drilling Company
236 West 78th Street, Third Floor
New York, NY 10024
Produced in association with The Drilling Company: Hamilton Clancy, AD
Donations are accepted to benefit The Drilling Company’s newly expanded Arts Space