For 25 years, Azuka has centered on developing new plays and uplifting Philadelphia theater artists. This season they’re renewing this commitment by developing two new plays for the 25-26 Season and launching AzukaFest – a new play festival and social gathering mash-up showcasing new work.
Monday evening play reading Jan. 20 at 7p.m.
The playwright attends the reading so they can hear their work and your feedback. Your comments will help guide the further development of the work.
ROBINS EGG
by Anna Langman
Directed by Larry Beck
Every day, people live their little lives in little houses on little streets. A husband looks for his wife; a wife looks for herself; a girl looks for her home; a woman looks for her purpose. All the while, nestled amongst her computers, a scientist finds an answer and gifts the little world a solution to a problem that not everyone has, a variable that not everyone wants varied. At once, each person must contend with the new technology shaking their sleepy world — the voluntary element to life, the choice of whether to have ever existed. The little, vasty dramas of the people’s everyday lives forge on as best they can, infiltrated and overshadowed by the weighty knowledge each soul carries of the choice awaiting them, if only they should choose to take it.
This play slides the spectrum from prose to poetry, from farce to tragedy, and stops to smell the roses in between.
Azuka Theatre is at 1700 Sansom Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA
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