Schedule:

1PM

WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR FOOT
by Christina Fitzpatrick

Single and hardworking, Jocelyn finds herself suddenly dependent on others, namely her family, after getting foot surgery. Her sister Dinah, a drug addict, pilfers her prescriptions, electronics, and finances while still seeking connection. Her mother, Jackie, an exhausted Amazon worker, prefers her downtime with firemen at the local pub to sudden caregiving, and tries to convince Jocelyn that a friendly pizza-delivery boy could be “The One.”

Christina Fitzpatrick is the author of the novel What's the Girl Worth? and the short story collection Where We Lived. She has been a member of the Women's Playwright Circle at Speranza Theatre since 2021. As a storyteller she's performed for The Moth, Tom Shillue's Funny Story, and The Dump! She is also a recipient of an NEA fellowship.

RESERVATIONS for 1 PM

3pm

CANCELED (title of play)
by Pandora Scooter

When May, a famous playwright, posts a vitriolic rant on Facebook, it goes viral and her agent and producers demand that she recant.  She refuses to do so despite the pleadings of her daughter, who has already been affected by the rant post and her ex-wife who wants May to protect her career.  It's a question of ethics vs. cancel culture.  May's agent has set up a press conference for her to recant.  What will she do?

Pandora Scooter is an award winning playwright and spoken word artist who has toured nationally with her solo shows, I Am Enough and OUTwordlyFabulous, two shows designed to support LGBTQ teens with bullying and suicidal ideation.  Her play Two Peas in a Pod has been adapted to a movie and is expected to be released in the next few months.  She is an Ambassador for the Dramatist's Guild and serves as Founder/Director of two play development programs: ATG PlayLab for BIPOC playwrights and the Women's Playwrights Circle @ Speranza, for women+ playwrights.  She lives in NW NJ.

RESERVATIONS for 3 PM

6pm

GRACE REVISED
by Dominique Cieri

The stories of our mothers are overshadowed by our fathers, in a man’s world, where language is not the mother-tongue but rather, the father-tongue. GRACE has always lived in the shadow of her father. In her final day of life, GRACE conjures up her mother, JEANETTE, and her

child-self, YOUNG GRACE and the three women take us on an odyssey that spans time, place, and the language of her mother- tongue.

DOMINIQUE CIERI is an award-winning playwright, Dramatists Guild member, and a two-time recipient of the Individual Playwriting Fellowship. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing at Goddard College, Vermont. Ms. Cieri’s plays have been produced in New Jersey, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and Pennsylvania. Her Essays on Arts and Education have been published in the New York Times, and Teaching Artist Journal. Dominique has adapted 26 plays based on Holocaust survivor stories at Yavneh Academy. She is an inaugural member of the Women’s Playwrights Circle @ Speranza, 2021-22. Thank you to Speranza Theatre Company, my intrepid Circle fellow playwrights, our fearless leader, Pandora Scooter, and for the Women’s Reading Series. Many thanks to John Pietrowski for his dedication to the development of playwrights and their work.

RESERVATIONS for 6 PM

Date: May 28, 2022

Time: 1pm, 3pm and 6pm

Location:

Apple TreeHouse
 298 Academy St
Jersey City, NJ 07306

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