Even though The Best of Craigslist closes this weekend (there are still some tickets left!), Flying V is not done bringing you awesome theatre this summer. Check out the information for our two upcoming Pay-What-You-Can staged readings this July and August:
There is a Happiness That Morning Is by Mickle Maher
Sunday, July 14 @ 7:00PM
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815
Directed by Jason Schlafstein
Featuring Zachary Fernebok, Doug Wilder, and Caitlin Smith Griffin
Playwright Mickle Maher’s comedy in rhymed verse is told via two lectures on the poetry of William Blake: one given in the morning by Bernard, a middle-aged, barely published poet of scant scholarship, on the Songs of Innocence, and the other in the afternoon by his lover, Ellen, a reputable Ph.D., on the Songs of Experience. Having engaged the evening before in a highly inappropriate display of public affection on the main lawn of their rural New England campus, the two undergraduate lecturers must now, in class, either apologize for their behavior or effectively justify it if they want to keep their jobs.
Lobster Alice by Kira Obolensky
Monday, August 12 @ 8:00PM
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815
Directed by Jessica Jung
Featuring Maggie Erwin, Ben Kingsland, and Zachary Fernebok as Salvador Dali
Alice Horowitz, coffee-bearing secretary, wants life to be interesting. John Finch, an animator at work on Disney’s Alice in Wonderland, wants Alice. When the great and outrageous Salvador Dali arrives at the studio to work on a short animated film, life becomes curiouser and curiouser. Dali scanDALIzes the conservative Finch; Alice, coffee-bearing secretary, becomes Alice, girl in a rabbit hole; and Finch and Alice both experience the surreal vagaries of the human heart.
