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Alley All New Festival

2018

The third annual Alley All New Festival featured new work from some of the most exciting playwrights writing today. Learn more about the plays in the 2018 Alley All New Festival below.

Staged Reading
Cinched and Strapped
By Selina Fillinger

From a posh nineteenth century dinner party to a war over resources in a dystopic future, Cinched and Strapped explore gender and rebellion through the ages. Bawdy and brutal, these paired plays question who will make the rules in a fast-approaching new world

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Reading
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By Laura Jacqmin

When the milestone date on their new video game is suddenly moved up, a diverse team of game developers camps out at the office for seven straight days. Exhaustion sets in, tempers flare and modern day work place grievances rise to the surface.

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Reading
Put Your House in Order
By Ike Holter

In only 24 hours, a first date turns into a life shaking adventure as two people are thrust into circumstances outside of their control. Equal parts romantic comedy and old school thriller, Put Your House in Order explores new beginnings at the end of the world.

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Reading
Quack
By Eliza Clark

Irving Baer’s daytime health and wellness show is watched by millions of women. When Dr. Baer is implicated in a national health crisis, his career and marriage suffer. But if Irving Baer is falling from grace, he’s not going down alone.

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Workshop Performance
Queen of Basel
By Hilary Bettis

Set during Art Basel, Miami’s decadent annual festival, this bold, contemporary take on Strindberg’s classic Miss Julie follows a party queen after she is humiliated at her father’s hotel when her fiancé publicly dumps her. Julie refuses to let the night end unless it’s on her terms…

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Reading
Tender Mercies
Adapted for the Stage by Daisy Foote
Based on Tender Mercies Written by Horton Foote
And by Special Arrangement with Studiocanal

Daisy Foote adapts Horton Foote’s Oscar-winning screenplay Tender Mercies. Jealousy and drinking destroyed Mac Sledge’s marriage and his country music career. Then he meets Vietnam widow Rosa Lee Wadsworth at her Texas roadside motel. Their dare for a second chance tests faith and love in this powerful story of human endurance and forgiveness.

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Early Draft Preview
Early Draft Preview: Glen Berger & Claire Kiechel

Excerpts from new plays in development at the Alley by Glen Berger and Claire Kiechel. Leslie Swackhamer, Executive Director of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, announced the finalists for the 2018 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.