Quarantine Players, A New Play Podcast.| We'll Keep the Ghostlight on For You!

Welcome to the Quarantine Players

We are reading, Ian Thal's play,"Second Annual Administration Building Takeover And Slumber Party"

This is a play about flashbacks and remembrances. The younger characters are in the second year of the annual takeover of the administration building. They are also looking back at the first year's take over. Their older selves are looking back on their college days for new truths. No one seems to be living in the present.

Ian, I believe is exploring his own college days where protesting became a way of life for some. Today we might refer to this as performative. Taking action for visuals rather than the substance.

Larissa Norris. . . . . . . . . . Younger Linda

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We'll Keep The Ghostlight On For You.

Tonight we are reading a classic that is rarely performed.  Carlo Goldoni's A Curious Mishap is a fantastic period comedy, relying on the common theme of mistaken identity, the machinations of love, and delightful wordplay to put the audience into a good mood.

The Plot:

 The daughter of a rich Dutch merchant looks longingly past her scheming father to her French lieutenant suitor. As the lovers hatch a plan to trap the merchant with his own words, their servants - a pair of quick-witted schemers themselves - realize they have fallen madly in love with each other. Masters and servants alike are caught in their own elaborate designs, and one misunderstanding leads to another and another until no one is quite sure what or whom to believe. Passion and pretense collide in this clever, fast-paced look at how one curious mishap turns all of their lives upside down.

Our Cast

Philibert, a rich Dutch merchant. (Robert Beard)

Riccardo, a broker. (Read by Judy Lewis)

De la Cotterie, a French lieutenant. (Ian Mead Moore )

Stage Direction (Judy Lewis)

CAST OF CHARACTERS

Kerri Alaina Peters . . . . . SARAH PERLMUTTER: 42 year old woman

About the Play

About Andrea Fine Carey

About the Quarantine Players

The Quarantine Players bring you this wonderful new work in development by Tom David Barna

Synopsis

Genre:  adventure, drama, fantasy, horror, melodrama

Subject Matter Keywords:  virus, pandemic, Hope, apocalypse, faith, war, religion, future dystopia, New York City

About Tom

Tom David Barna, playwright, and lyricist is a four-time McKnight Fellow (most recently--2018-9), recent Resident Playwright at the Twin Rivers Center for the Arts and former McKnight Artist Career Development Grant Recipient. OPEN TO THEATER COLLABORATION. Four -time invitee to the international playwright conference, VALDEZ LAST FRONTIER THEATRE CONFERENCE. He has written twenty-seven full-length plays, twenty-four short plays, co-author for a 13-part radio series, and author of four children's books (Cantata Publishing). He has accepted commissioned work as varied as radio and children's musicals. He is the recipient of more than twenty-six regional non-equity and/or festival productions and/or staged readings since writing his first play in 2009. Tom is a twenty-two year Marine Corps Veteran. Tom earned his Bachelor of Arts at New Mexico State University.

One of Oscar Wilde's four-country house comedies with a serious twist.  Wilde takes on the topic of out of the double standard of how men of means and women of no importance are treated.  In this story, a woman has an affair with a man who unknown to her is her child's potential new employer. The employer is a known lothario who tricked the mom into running away with him, then refused to marry her, ruining her chances in society.  

Persons of the Play:

Today we are reading Comfort Food by Sharon Armstrong and Priscilla A Vazquez

This play is Steel Magnolias meets Sex in the City is you take away the sex and put it in a different city.  It is an older female-centered drama revolving around cancer recurrence.  

Cast

Maggie: Christine Tankersley

The Quarantine Players is a national group of actors, writers, and directors, who gather every Tuesday night to read new plays in the development and classic plays. This is the second half of the full-length play with a running time of around 2 hours.   Talk Back with the playwright after the performance.   The following is a list of the characters.

Rachel Tilson. Rebecca's mother; married to Gerald. Age 56. Played by Tammy Peters Grandpa Tilson (Alfred). Married to Christine, father of Gerald, Grandfather of Rebecca. Age 82. Cross Cast at Barrie Alguire  Grandma Tilson (Christine). Married to Alfred, mother of Gerald, Grandma of Rebecca. Age 78. Played by Kathy Morton Young  Rebecca Nickolonos. Married to Spiros, daughter of Gerald and Rachel, Granddaughter of Alfred and Christine. Age 32. Played by Alexia Poe  Young Rebecca: 8 years old & Teen Rebecca age 15 Played by Katie Morris Gerald Tilson. Son of Christine and Alfred, married to Rachel, father of Rebecca. Age 59. Played by D. Scott Graham  Clarence Hill. Grandson of Christine and Alfred, Nephew of Gerald, Rebecca's first cousin. Age 34. Played by Ian A. Wade  Spiros Nickolonos. Rebecca's husband. Age 39. Played by Isa SeyranWe will leave the Ghostlight on for you.

We will leave the Ghostlight on for you.

The Quarantine Players is a national group of actors, writers, and directors, who gather every Tuesday night to read new plays in the development and classic plays.

This is a full-length play with a running time of around 2 hours. The following is a list of the characters.