Ambruster Playreading Series
A few years ago, we decided we’d like to present more plays to our Rogue audience, and to teach some of the younger members of our company about the ins and outs of producing plays. Our season schedule was too full to offer more fully-produced plays, so we decided to produce a playreading series. At the very same time, John & Joyce Ambruster asked to fund a special project at The Rogue.
It was a perfect marriage.
In the “Ambruster Playreading Series” we offer readings of plays that might be of interest to our Rogue audience. Each play is rehearsed by a group of actors for about 12 hours and performed with scripts in hand. Some of these plays will be fully produced in future years, and some of the plays are just interesting to hear once. Either way, our younger members of the company are learning a little about what it takes to produce a play at The Rogue. And our audience gets to taste four more plays each year.
The Playreading Series
2019–2020
Enemy of the People
by Henrik Ibsen
The story of a man who dares to speak an unpalatable truth, and the devastating consequences.
Sunday October 6, 2019 2:00 P.M.
Madagascar
by J. T. Rogers
At three different periods in time, three Americans find themselves in a hotel room overlooking the Spanish Steps in Rome confronting the haunting mystery that connects them.
Sunday December 1, 2019 2:00 P.M.
Molly Sweeney
by Brian Friel
Told in a riveting series of monologues, a blind woman living in Donegal, Ireland undergoes a revolutionary operation to restore her sight.
Sunday February 2, 2020 2:00 P.M.
The House of Bernarda Alba
by Federico Garcia Lorca
Following the funeral of Bernarda Alba’s second husband, the tyrannical matriarch announces to her five daughters that their period of mourning will last eight years.
Sunday March 22, 2020 2:00 P.M.