Local Writer Participates in a Write-a-thon

Local writer Ada Milenkovic Brown, the coordinator of the Greenville Writer's Group, is participating in the 2009 Clarion West Write-a-thon. Clarion West is a nonprofit literary organization which provides high level training in writing speculative fiction, which includes genres such as science fiction, fantasy, magic realism, horror and alternate history.  Ada attended the Clarion West Writing Workshop in 2005.  Her stories have appeared in Intergalactic Medicine Show and PodCastle and her humor in the Raleigh News & Observer.  She is pledging to write a chapter a week for 6 weeks of her dark fantasy novel in progress, Men of Blood, beginning June 21 with chapter 2.  Chapters 1 and 18, which she had previously written as short fiction, have both received honorable mentions from the Speculative Literature Foundation.
 
If you would like to sponsor Ada by donating money to Clarion West for the training of spec fiction writers, you can do so online: www.clarionwest.org/events/writeathon/AdaMilenkovicBrown.

Summer Films

The Independent Film Series movies are at 7:30pm at the Tipsy Teapot and are free to attend.  For a full list of films and synopses, please click here.

June 25 – Marion Bridge
The story of three sisters paralyzed by family secrets.  In the midst of struggling to overcome her self-destructive behaviour, the youngest sister, Agnes, returns home determined to confront the past in a community built on avoiding it. Her quest sets in motion a chain of events that allows the sisters each in their own way to re-connect with the world and one another. Set in post-industrial Cape Breton, Marion Bridge is a story of poignant humor and drama.
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Language: English   

July 9 – Summer Shorts
A collection of short films from around the world spanning drama, comedy, animation and other art forms.

July 23 – Arranged

August 13 – Viva Cuba

August 27 – August the First

The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney - August show

Our second summer theatre production is The Dining Room.  The play is a drama as well as a comedy, set in a single dining room where 18 scenes from different households overlap and intertwine. Each story is focused around a different family during different time periods who has in their possession the same dining room furniture set, manufactured in 1898.  Some scenes are about the furniture itself, and the emotional attachment to it, while other scenes simply flesh out the culture of the kind of people who tend to own these kinds of dining room sets. Overall, it tells the story of the dying culture of upper-middle class Americans, and the transition into a much more efficient society with less emphasis on tradition and more emphasis on progress. Some characters are made fun of, as is the culture itself, but there is also a genuine longing for the sense of stability, comfort and togetherness that the culture provides.

Show dates are Friday, Saturday, and Sunday July 31, August 1, and 2, then the following Thursday, Friday, and Saturday August 6, 7, & 8.  All shows are at 7:30 except Sunday which is a 2:00 matinee only.  Performances are at the Music Academy of Eastern Carolina, 1400 Red Banks Road in Greenville.

Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.  You can purchase tickets online, or you can call 888-MAC-EVNT and leave a message with your name and number and we will return your call.  There is currently not a physical location to purchase tickets.    

Fourth Annual Playwright Competition - 10-Minute Play Contest

Starting May 1st, the 2009 Playwright Competition will accept submissions. The deadline for submissions is August 31, by midnight!

This year's contest has a guaranteed prize of $50!

For full contest details and rules, please click here.

• Mail-in submissions are $3, and online submissions are $5 (the extra $2 is for printing costs).
• All ages and skill levels may submit
• You may submit more than 1 entry, but each entry must have it's own submission fee paid.
  
• Entries may not have been previously published. (Posting on your own website is fine).
• Musicals and adaptations of other people's work is not allowed.
• Entries must be able to be performed in a 10-minute time frame (or as close to it as you can).
  

2010 Season

Do you have an idea for next season?  We'd love to hear about it!  Plans are being made for our 2010 season with a season announcement planned during The Dining Room.  Please -email- or call (888-MAC-EVNT) with your show or event ideas!