EdgyRepReadings Around Town
Experience staged readings from critically acclaimed playwrights who have the unique flair we like to call "edgy".
Shining City
by Conor McPherson
October 25, 2008
Director: F. Scott Regan
Presented at Owens Community College
In a Dublin psychiatrist’s office, a distraught man reveals a fantastical happening: the recent sighting of the ghost of his recently deceased wife. Thus begins this haunting, mysterious tale about their searches for love, meaning and their places in the world.
Vagina Monologues
by Eve Ensler
February 14, 2009
Director: Amy Heuring
Presented at Owens Community College
An episodic play made up of a series of monologues read by several women, The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. In this stunning Obie award- winning phenomenon Eve Ensler gives us real women’s stories of intimacy, vulnerability and self discovery. This performance is done free of charge in collaboration with Owens Community College Center for Fine and Performing Arts. The performance will benefit Toledo’s YWCA Battered Women’s Shelter Adult content and language
Women on the Edge
by Bertolt Brecht, Eric Bentley and Alan Bennett
March 7, 2009
Director: Paul Causman and Jeff J. Albright
Presented at Trinity Episcopal Church - One Trinity Plaza
Women on the Edge is comprised of two outstanding monologues: The Jewish Wife by Bertolt Brecht, English version by Eric Bentley and Bed Among the Lentils by Alan Bennett. The Jewish Wife opens with a woman saying goodbye to friends, then rehearsing a speech she intends to deliver to her husband. The awful truth is revealed. She is the Jewish wife of a Nazi scientist and she knows it is better for him if she goes away. In Bed Among the Lentils, Susan is the vicar’s wife. She can barely cope with the lifestyle, and the do gooders and well meaning women who attach themselves to her husband. Susan hits the sherry bottle – or the communion wine if there is nothing else at hand…
Durang, Durang
by Christopher Durang
April 11, 2009
Director: Matthew Bowland
Presented at the Toledo Club
Durang, Durang by Christopher Durang is an evening of six one-acts. The Rep has selected three of the one acts for this irreverent, hysterical evening of parodies beginning with Mrs. Sorken, an introductory welcoming speech in which the over-articulate, somewhat dotty Mrs. Sorken explains her likes and dislikes about theatre and what the audience can expect that evening. For Whom the Southern Bell Tolls is a delicious parody of The Glass Menagerie, the final one act, ‘dentity crisis deals with repression, hysteria, suicide, incest, mania and the destruction of childhood myths. Adult themes and language.
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