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Witches Vanish at Venus Theatre, Aug 20-Sep 13

Witches Vanish at Venus Theatre, Aug 20-Sep 13

Witches Vanish
by Claudia Barnett
Venus Theatre World Premiere

Location: Venus Theatre Play Shack.

Opens August 20, 2015
Closes September 13, 2015
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm; Saturdays and Sundays at 3:00pm.

Description: In a series of stylized, highly visual vignettes employing puppetry, poetry, and surrealism, the weïrd sisters from Macbeth explore the stories of women who disappear, whether by choice or force. Inspired by history, astronomy, and Shakespeare, Witches Vanish examines the nature of change and the value of human life.

About the playwright: Claudia Barnett has developed four scripts with Venus Theatre, including No. 731 Degraw-street Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson’s Sister, which had its world premiere on C Street in November 2013. She wrote Witches Vanish as resident playwright at Stage Left Theatre in Chicago, where it was included in LeapFest 9, and further drafted the script at the MultiStages New Works Finalist Festival (New York), the Great Plains Theatre Conference (Omaha), the Women’s Work Festival (St. John’s, Newfoundland), and the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival (Washington, DC). She teaches playwriting at Middle Tennessee State University and is the author of I Love You Terribly: Six Plays (2012) and No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson’s Sister (forthcoming, fall 2015), both from Carnegie Mellon University Press.

Tickets: Buy here.

Dry Bones Rising at Venus Theatre, May 21-Jun 14

Dry Bones Rising at Venus Theatre, May 21-Jun 14

Dry Bones Rising
by Cecelia Raker
Venus Theatre World Premiere

Location: Venus Theatre Play Shack.

Opens May 21, 2015
Closes June 14, 2015
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm; Saturdays and Sundays at 3:00pm.

Description: In the wake of the world-shattering catastrophe, two children from very different sides of the Wall emerge from the rubble, alone except for each other. With nothing familiar left, they agree on only one point: they gotta find help. But he wants to embark on a journey to a safer place, and she wants to stay, calling upon an ancient power to kiss a protective golem to life. When creating a Mud Man doesn’t turn out the way she’d hoped, will they two human survivors be able to make a new world together, or will they reap the dire consequences of playing pretend God?

About the playwright: Cecelia Raker is a playwright, director, and dramaturge currently at work on a cycle of movement-and-text pieces based on fairy tales, a few more traditional plays, and Shiver, a collaborative devised piece with the Project:Project collective in Boston. Her play Skinwalking was developed at the 2014 Great Plains Theater Conference Playlab, and had a sold-out run in 2011 at the Art’s Loeb Experimental Theater. Her new piece Dry Bones Rising was read in December 2014 with Argos Productions, and her play Lilacs in November was work-shopped in the 2010 Harvard Playwrights’ Festival. Her short play Webbed Hands was produced by Imaginary Beasts at the 2014 Boston Theater Marathon. Her work has also been developed/performed at The One-Minute Play Festival, the Exit 7 New Short Play Contest, Bostonia Bohemia, Company One, and a variety of other venues. Cecelia is a member of Project:Project, the Grub Street Writers’ Workshop, and One Bird Productions. She holds an AB in Theater Arts from Harvard College. www.ceceliaraker.tumblr.com

Tickets $20: Buy here.

God Don’ Like Ugly at Venus Theatre, Mar 19-Apr 12

God Don’ Like Ugly at Venus Theatre, Mar 19-Apr 12

God Don’ Like Ugly at the Venus Theatre Play Shack, March 19 to April 12, 2015
by Doc Andersen Bloomfield
Venus Theatre World Premiere

Location: Venus Theatre Play Shack.

Opens March 19, 2015
Closes April 12, 2015
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm; Saturdays and Sundays at 3:00pm.

Issues/themes: love; living with a mentally disabled child (the carer and the cared for); domestic violence; magic.

Parental Advisory: Adult themes.

Description: Esme loves to sing and dance, dressing up in costumes, performing her ‘Golden Oldies’ to an imaginary audience. Today is Esme’s 36th birthday and because she has the mental age of a seven year old, she still lives with her tired and overwhelmed mother, Bessie, (a Tarot reader) in a dilapidated old crumbling home, set in the rural South. Esme has a twin, not seen for quite awhile. Heartsick Bessie yearns for the twin, who’s ‘the okay one’ to come home to celebrate. This will never happen and only Esme seems to understand this. A stranger, on the run, named SJ, enters their small lives, seeking to hide from a violent partner. She encounters the extraordinary, both in the human beings who live there as well as their magic of simply ‘being’.

A realistic (but magical) tragicomedy set in America’s rural south, with intermittent Physical Theatre Scenes.

About the playwright: Doc currently writes with Oxford Playwrights and for Oxford Actors’ Network. Other past works in progress/rehearsed readings include: Women’s ‘Theatre Workshop (Oval; Finborough; Drill Hall; Soho in London). Doc is an American who has lived and written in Oxford, England, the last 28 years. She was one of the founding mothers of Women In Theatre, in Los Angeles.

Tickets $20. Buy here.

Auditions for 2015 season at The Venus Theatre, Jan 18

Auditions for 2015 season at Venus Theatre Play Shack, Jan 18

Venus Theatre: Feral 15 Casting

Venus Theatre play shack will be casting all roles for the four plays in their 2015 season, including puppeteers, starting the week of January 18, 2015. Email to make an appointment.

Location: Venus Theatre Play Shack.

Venus Theatre is committed to more team building and will also enter into the world of puppetry in the 2015 calendar year season.

This year we celebrate women with poetry, song, puppets, and Grimm’s Fairy tale play. Inspired by Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, ee cummings, and the Krofft brothers.

Here come scripts 51, 52, 53, and 54!!!

Venus Theatre: Feral 15 Casting

Auditions will take place the week of January 18, 2015. Email submissionsofvenus@gmail.com to schedule an audition on the ½ hours from 3-8 in the evening. Actors please prepare a 2 minute contemporary monologue and be prepared to cold read and move. Puppeteers, please prepare a 2 minute contemporary puppet monologue and be prepared to cold read and move.

For further questions call deb (202-236-4078)

For more information including shows and roles, click here.

Virus Attacks Heart at Venus Theatre, Nov 6-30

Virus Attacks Heart at Venus Theatre, Nov 6-30

Virus Attacks Heart
by Shannon Murdoch

Location: Venus Theatre Play Shack.

November 6 – 30, 2014
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm; Saturdays and Sundays at 3:00pm.

Tickets: $20. Buy here.

Parental advisory: Adult themes.

Description: Beatrice is trying for a less crazy life. Jamie has just stepped off a train in a new city. A spilt drink in a dingy nightclub smashes them together and leads to a night of sex, stories and ultimately heartbreak and tragedy for these two unlikely companions. Virus Attacks Heart is an intricate dissection of a one night stand, exploring in a non-linear structure the deep emotional connections we make in the most unlikely of circumstances.