Boot Camp 2004, November 13-21

What do you get when you lock a playwright, a director, and some actors in a room with a computer for four days? Clubbed Thumb intends to find out this Fall with a series of intensive play workshops at The Room. Check out the results as each project culminates in a public reading of the revamped, renewed, and recharged plays at the following times:

Saturday, November 13th at 8:00pm
100 Aspects of the Moon
by Ethan Lipton
directed by Pam MacKinnon

One Hundred Aspects of the Moon is a collection of interwoven stories inspired by a series of 100 prints by nineteenth-century Japanese woodblock-printmaker Yoshitoshi. Sexy and sad, foreign and domestic, absurd and painfully honest, it announces the advent of a new theatrical form known as the Borscht Belt Haiku Play.


Sunday, November 14th at 8:00pm
Teach
by Brighde Mullins
directed by Drew Barr

A collision of class leads to a betrayal and a murder. Teach is an inside look at the mean streets of the NYC public school system. Based on a true story.


Sunday, November 21st at 8:00pm
The Pool Skimmer
by Kate E. Ryan
directed by Ken Rus Schmoll

A woman and her much younger lover escape on a vacation to an unnamed tropical sea and island; in suburbia, the woman's young nephew waits for her return.