A Free Play Reading at the Mahaiwe
Plays, like movies, aren’t just written and produced. They are developed over time, and staged readings are an essential way for a playwright to see if her vision can take flight. The new Berkshire Playwrights Lab will continue its inaugural season on Wednesday, July 16th at 8 PM, at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center with a free reading of Eggs In A Basket by “next generation” playwright Daria Polatin (photo). Eggs In A Basket is a farce about a British scientist who gets an Eastern European mail-order bride—and a lot more than he bargained for
Polatin has had her work read and/or performed at New York Theatre Workshop, Naked Angels Lab, and The Ensemble Studio Theatre among others. Directing the reading is Evan Cabnet, another “next generation” theatre artist, who works frequently in New York as well as at Williamstown Theatre Festival (his own adaptations of Ubu Roi and Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories), and, this past season, he directed Donald Marguiles’ Shipwrecked! at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven.
Reservations are recommended through the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center box office: 413.528.010..
Berkshire Playwrights Lab will present more staged readings of new plays at the Mahaiwe with free admission on July 30, August 13, and August 27.
