A play about the mysteries of marriage
HACKETTSTOWN — The 2015 Centenary Stage Company’s Women Playwright Series closes this year with “True Love” by Tracy Thorne, Wednesday, April 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lackland Center.
In this cosmopolitan and compelling play about the mysteries of marriage, Paul and Frankie come from very different backgrounds, and those of very different means. When their idiosyncratic family histories insert themselves into their budding relationship, the pair is forced to navigate some new arresting new territory in this modern love story.
About The PlaywrightTracy Thorne’s play, "We Are Here," received its world premiere at New York Stage and Film and was also produced at the Contemporary American Theater Festival. It was nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and is published by Dramatists Play Service. Her play, "The Nature Of Things," developed and workshopped at SohoRep in 2013, was nominated for The Kilroys list. Her other works include "Will And Testament," "A Ridiculous Trade" and "Quick Bright Things."
Her plays have received workshops and/or readings at many American theatres, including MCC, The Cherry Lane, NYS&F, Florida Stage, The Lark, The Dramatists Guild and The Women’s Project–to name a few. Thorne is a recent recipient of the Elizabeth George commission from South Coast Rep. She worked as an actor in New York and London, collaborating with directors such as Anna Deavere Smith and Tony Kushner. Thorne studied History at Smith College, is a graduate of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and lives in Harlem USA with her family.
About The Women Playwrights Series
Now in its 23nd year, the Centenary Stage Company Women Playwrights Series (WPS) presents three to four new plays each year in rehearsed staged readings throughout the month of April. Led by Program Director Catherine Rust, the WPS is dedicated to providing a working forum for the unique and underserved voice of women writing for the theater today. The Series offers emerging playwrights a chance to work with professional directors and actors in a short rehearsal period, followed by a staged reading of the work in front of a live audience, with audience feedback and discussion. Each presentation is followed by lively “talk-backs” with the playwright and cast following the performance.
The Series features the finalists in the Susan Glaspell contest, which offers the winner further development support worth $45,000 in a full production in the CSC professional Equity main-stage season, as well as a cash award to the author.
Admission to the “True Love” is by donation and reservations are requested. For reservations and information contact the Centenary Stage Company Box Office at 908-979-0900, or visit online at www.centenarystageco.org.