October Staged Reading (Today!)

Picture from http://www.arstechnica.com)

Heya everyone. Due to all of the members of Mind the Gap being massively busy with work (Amy Lu and myself pulled some ridiculous plus 80-hour work this last week and got some pig flu type of sick in the process), this posting is coming much much later than I had wanted it to. But, the awesometastic news is that tonight we have the reading for our staged reading series. The featured play is the wickedly amazing User 927 by Katharine Clark Gray.

Summerizing the play without giving too much away is incredibly difficult, so I am going to default to Nate Anderson of Ars Technica’s summery:

“In User 927, a mother and daughter move from Brooklyn to the small town of Osterville, Indiana, and the mother declares an analog-only summer. Her daughter, bored out of her mind, turns to the Internet for friendship in a play that ‘takes a provocative look at the nature of search in the Internet era, and the dangers that seem to spring from every click of the mouse.’” (http://www.arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/05/uare-what-you-seek-new-play-sparked-by-search-queries.ars).

The kickassedness of User 927 has resulted in it being honored as the winner of this year’s Reverie Productions Next Generation Playwriting Competition. As for Katharine Clark Gray, well, bow before all of this awesome. In 2008 she was honored with a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, was a Barrymore Award Winner in 2007 for her collaborative work on Three Chord Fiction, and won the 1st Annual Ithaca Great Playwrights Competition with her play Francis Bacon. Currently she resides in Philadelphia, where I am led to believe it is always sunny, and is a member of the InterAct Theatre Company’s Playwrights Forum, the Philadelphia Drmatists Center, and is the co-founder of A Chip & A Chair Films.

Tonight’s reading will feature direction from St. Louis’/Truman State’s own Paul Kastner and feature the actoring of Jeanne T. Arrigo, Sarah Augusta, Jacqueline Davies, Emily Eaton, Shawn Goudie, Shawn Pfautsch, Reginald K. Robinson, Jr., John Stiens, and Whitney White. 

As usual, the reading will be at the Black Rock Pub & Kitchen (3614 N. Damen, the corner of Addison and Damen), and since we’re back on our regular Monday night schedule, we have the return of $1.50 Pabst pints, $3 shots of Jameson, $0.50 mini burgers (which are on pretzel bread and come with side sauces of jalepeno cheddar and smooth horseradish), and $4 pints of Goose Island Harvest Ale.

Now, there is also going to be another post within the next week or so, in which will be announcing the featured plays for our staged reading series (up until March), a special December production, and officially announce our 2010 season.

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