I know for a fact that the only reason one watches something for more than 15 or 20 minutes is because it has a plot and you’re curious to know what happens next.
- Wallace Shawn
Playwrights Workshop of Brevard Mission
Our Mission: Helping new and established local playwrights improve their craft through feedback from members at play readings, and from audiences at community productions, while enriching the local community through premiering original one-act plays.
The play 'Checkered Linoleum' by Barbara Kreher won the Bencich Award for 2007-2008. The Bencich Award recognizes the best script in each Playwrights Workshop season. The top three plays, as ranked by the audiences, compete as finalist at the end of season PlayRead. A panel of three expert judges then select the final winner.
Congratulations to the finalists for 2007-2008 season Bencich Award as listed below. The Bencich Award is awarded annually for the best new script of the production season. The finalists are the top three plays based on the audience scores. The Bencich Award winner will be selected at the Playwrights Workshop 'Read Off' in June and will be selected by a committee of three experienced playwrights.
1) Last of the Red Hat Lovers
written by Betty Prisendorf
directed by Evanne Floyd
2) Checkered Linoleum
written by Barber Kreher
directed by Barber Kreher
3) Between Life and Death
written by Alec Fisher
directed by Troy Jones
NEXT MEETING -- The Last Meeting of the 2007-2008 Season
3:00 pm, 17 May 2008 (Saturday)
Cocoa Library
We will review the audience scores and feedack from our May production and announce the three finalist for the Bencich Award for best new script this season. A new script, 'Happy New Year' by William Roeder will be be read.
New Location for the May Production by Playwrights Workshop!
The next production of Playwrights Workshop will be at the Surfside Playhouseat 300 Ramp Road in
Cocoa
Beach
, NOT at the Melbourne Civic Theater as we did for our first two productions in our 2007-2008 season.
The Playwrights Workshop
presents
‘The Long Road’
Three Original One-Act Plays
When: 8:00 pm, 1-3 May 2008 (Thursday – Saturday) 2:30 pm, 4 May 2008 (Sunday Matinee)
Reservations: (321) 961-1988
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Play-1: Whitman Awakens
by Nancy Andrews
directed by Troy Jones
Play-2: To Catch A Falling Star
by Brian Pearson directed by Arlan Ropp
Play-3: The Plan by Kit Kavanah directed by Troy Jones
Did I mention that this production will be at a NEW LOCATION, the Surfside Playhouse in
Cocoa
Beach
?
SURFSIDE PLAYHOUSE: The Surfside Playhouseis located on the corner of Ramp Rd. and Brevard Avenue in
Cocoa
Beach
, just a block west of A1A on South 5th Street, 5 blocks south of Minuteman Causeway. Traveling south on A1A, take a right on South 5th Street. Traveling north on A1A, take a left on South 5th Street.
Don’t forget, new location at Surfside Playhouse for this production!
Production dates: Jan. 31-Feb. 2( Th, F, Sat at 8 pm), Feb. 3 at 2:30 pm
Shows:
The Writer by Kit Kavanah,
Directed by Mike Mellen
The Writer is about a man who struggles to complete a novel while fighting his inner demons and trying to raise his son.
Checkered Linoleum by Barbara Kreher
Directed by Barbara Kreher
Checkered Linoleum is about a mysterious person who confronts two retired nursery care workers about the "accidental" death of a child in their distant past.
The Last of the Red-Hat Lovers by Betty Prisendorf
Directed by Evanne Floyd
The Last of the Red-Hat Lovers is about a group of Red Hat ladies who find laughter and love during the course of an afternoon luncheon at a local restaurant.
Production dates: Jan. 31-Feb. 3, 2008 at the Melbourne Civic Theater, downtown Melbourne. All tickets are $5. For reservations please call 321-961-1988.
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