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2010 STAGED PLAY READING SERIES
This series, co-presented with the Elliott Bay Book Company, features new, award-winning and classic works by local, national and international playwrights. These fully staged play readings are a unique blend of the spoken word and theatrical staging. Please join us for these special presentations presented throughout the year.
Reserve your seats today!
 EASTERN STANDARD
By Richard Greenberg
Elliott Bay Book Company
2pm - February 28, 2010
Staged Play Reading
ReAct
is thrilled to kick off our 11th Annual Staged Play Reading Series on a grand note with a presentation of EASTERN STANDARD by one of our perennial favorite playwrights, Richard Greenberg. How do you tell the man you really love that you have the AIDS virus? How does your sister react to the news of your illness when she's trying to start a relationship of her own? How does an architect make amends to society for years of creating skyline monstrosities? And can all these questions really be answered by playing Pygmalion with a elderly bag lady? Don't miss this rarely produced humorous and poignant modern American classic that tells what it is like to be more or less middle-class, more or less young and more or less well-intentioned in a frightening city at this moment.
 'NIGHT, MOTHER
By Marsha Norman
Elliott Bay Book Company
2pm - March 21, 2010
Staged Play Reading
'NIGHT, MOTHER is the controversial Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary American drama by Marsha Norman. Centered around the relationship between a mother and her child, it explores issues of suicide and love. ReAct's most unique and unusual non-traditional staging of this thought-provoking masterpiece is not to be missed!
 MRS. PACKARD
By Emily Mann
Elliott Bay Book Company
2pm - March 28, 2010
Staged Play Reading
We are pleased to showcase the exciting new drama set in Illinois in 1861, MRS. PACKARD by Emily Mann. Without proof of insanity, Elizabeth Packard is committed by her husband to an asylum. Based on historical events, Mann's play tells of one woman's courageous struggle to right a system gone wrong in this winner of the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award. You won't want to miss this engaging, significant and passionate play.
 FIFTY WORDS
By Michael Weller
Elliott Bay Book Company
2pm - May 30, 2010
Staged Play Reading
ReAct is honored to present the recent hit Broadway play by Michael Weller, FIFTY WORDS. While their nine-year-old son is away for the night on his first sleepover, Adam and Jan have an evening alone together, their first in years. Adam's attempt to seduce his wife before he leaves on business the next day begins a suspenseful nightlong roller-coaster ride of revelation, rancor, passion and humor that explores a modern-day marriage on the verge of either a breakup or deepening love and understanding. Don't miss this extraordinary play.
 YELLOW FACE
By David Henry Hwang
Elliott Bay Book Company
Time T.B.A. - October 17, 2010
Staged Play Reading
ReAct is pleased wrap up this year's staged play reading serires with a presentation of the recent Pulitzer Prize Finalist play by David Henry Hwang, YELLOW FACE. In this OBIE-Award winning mock-documentary comedic play, Hwang puts himself center stage, as he uses the controversy over color-blind casting for Miss Saigon and the racially motivated federal investigation of his own father to explore ethnic identity and the ever-changing definition of what it is to be an American. Don't miss this special preview of our Seattle Premiere next season!
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