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Regina Ford @ Old Pueblo Playwrights' New Play Festival
Old Pueblo Playwrights’ New Play Festival, an annual celebration of thought-provoking theatre, features original works by 12 local playwrights during five days of staged readings of 14 peer-reviewed plays this year.
“OPP has been bringing literary theatre to life for 30-plus years,” says John Vornholt, the nonprofit’s longtime president. “We are excited to be returning this spring to the historic Temple of Music and Art in Tucson’s Downtown Arts District.”
Notes 2023 Festival Coordinator David Zinke: “The festival will be held again this year in the intimate upstairs Cabaret Theatre at TMA.” The veteran Tucson actor and budding playwright serves on OPP’s board.
“Santa Cruz Shoestring Players’ Regina Ford, Active Imagination Theatre’s Robin Carson, and a host of others will direct more than a dozen actors as they portray characters young and old, comic and tragic, real and surreal, in five (5) full-length plays and nine (9) shorts. From end-of-life dramas to marital farce to SciFi romps, this year’s lineup has something for everyone. And we’ve got talent from the Beowulf Alley Theatre Company, KXCI’s Tales of Tucson, Rogue Theatre, and more.”
Adds Vornholt: “OPP believes the play’s the thing, so we focus on the writing. We perform each play just once, script in hand, with minimal blocking, props, set pieces, and lighting—and encourage audiences to ‘talk back’ to playwrights and actors.” The best-selling author, actor, playwright, director, producer, screenwriter, and journalist, invites feedback on his historical saga, The President’s Women, debuting Saturday, April 1, at 7 pm.
“I’ve enjoyed exploring most of the seven sins and then some! Find out how little is truly fictional at the post-performance talkback.”
“OPP is grateful to the Arizona Commission on the Arts for their continued support of OPP and the arts,” adds OPP Treasurer Mel Hector, MD. The prolific playwright frequently explores thorny healthcare and end-of-life issues in such plays as his Thin Grey Line, debuting Thursday, March 30.
WHAT: 2023 OPP NEW PLAY FESTIVAL (NPF)
WHEN: March 30-April 2, 2023
WHERE: At Temple of Music and Art’s upstairs Cabaret Theatre at 330 S. Scott Avenue in downtown Tucson
NO TIX NEEDED!
~Performances are pay-what-you-will.
~Open seating—please arrive 15-30 minutes before showtime.
~Masks suggested but not required.
~Use outdoor stairs or elevator in back to access second-floor theatre.
~Park on street (several handicapped spots) or in downtown garages.
~Bottled water available for a donation.
SHOWTIMES LINE-UP :
Thurs., Mar. 30 @ 7 PM
~Regina Ford directs Sydney Flynn (MS. BEVERLY), Audrey Ann Gambach (NANCY HAYDEN), Patrick Kutsor (STEVEN HAYDEN), Joe Smith (RICHARD HAYDEN), and Richard Michael Thompson (DARREN “DEATH” YADER) in The Thin Grey Line, a gripping 90-min. drama by Mel Hector. Let us know if you think the Haydens are making end-of-life arrangements with Death or Satan at the talkback; John Vornholt facilitates.
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