WHAT: On the Boards ’24: a festival of new play readings by (mostly) local playwrights: The Female Gaze by Mary Nelen and Rogue Flight by Rex McGregor
WHEN: Saturday, June 15, 7 p.m.
WHERE: The LAVA Center, 324 Main St., Greenfield
MORE DETAILS: https://thelavacenter.org/on-the-boards/
CONTACT: info@thelavacenter.org or 413-376-8118
GREENFIELD, MA — The LAVA Center is proud to present our second annual festival of new play readings by (mostly) local playwrights, “On the Boards ’24,” which kicks off Saturday, June 15, 7 p.m. with table readings by local playwright Mary Nelen and friend-of-LAVA Rex McGregor.
The Female Gaze was written and directed by Mary Nelen and will be performed by Phoebe Hazzard, Shannon Edward Chabot and Ed Fitzgerald. The Female Gaze is a one-act play featuring a female photographer and her Craigslist assistant who attempt to find the soul of their subject, a public figure, who arrives at the studio expecting romance. Chaos and mayhem ensue when the public figure finds himself prisoner of the long exposure.
Rogue Flight was written by Rex McGregor and directed by Ash Goverman, and will be performed by Kimberly Salditt-Poulin, Aria Killough-Miller, Alison Blakeslee and Lin Snider. When her mother prepares her for a huge surprise, Ellie is only at the start of a weird journey.
Admission is on a sliding scale of $5–15 ($1–2 for Card to Culture participants). Advance tickets are now available at https://www.tixtree.com/o/lava.
The schedule for the rest of the festival:
Saturday, June 22, 7 p.m. — table readings:
Good Shabbos, Aronsteinowits!, written by Sasha and directed by Ash Goverman
The Fourth Dimension, written by Christine Benvenuto and directed by Ash Goverman
Saturday, June 29, 7 p.m. — table readings:
Phoenix in the Holy Land, written by JuPong Lin and directed by Ash Goverman
Acacia, written by Samuel Rahman and directed by Ash Goverman
Friday–Saturday, July 12–13, 7 p.m. — staged readings:
The Moon Over Us, written by Beth Filson and directed by Penney Hulten
Cancer Mom, written by Steve Poulin and directed by Tracy Grammer
Friday–Saturday, July 19–20, 7 p.m. — staged readings:
Man and his Shadow, written and directed by Silvia
Modern Times, written and directed by P.H. Crosby
American Stink Bug, written by Jean Minuchin and directed by Bri Boehm
Friday–Saturday, July 26–27, 7 p.m. — staged reading:
Inheritance, written by Nina Gross and co-directed with Kiersten Samalis
More details to come soon! Visit https://thelavacenter.org/on-the-boards/ for updates.
All plays will also be viewable online for a short time, with closed captioning.
On the Boards ’24 is made possible by grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the local cultural councils of Amherst, Bernardston, Buckland, Conway, Deerfield, Gill, Greenfield, Leyden, Northfield and Shelburne.
The LAVA Center is a community arts space in Greenfield, MA whose mission is to create opportunities and build inclusive community in and through the arts and humanities. We are focused on making The LAVA Center a space where all artists, including marginalized communities and individuals, can have their voices heard. The LAVA Center is located at 324 Main St., in downtown Greenfield, MA. https://thelavacenter.org