Our Second Stage
The Second Stage gives us an opportunity to focus on new and innovative plays, staged readings and other styles of performance. The plays are performed with minimal staging, with admission by donation at the door, and the works range from experimental new plays to original adaptations, off-Broadway and fringe plays, and work by local writers. If you're in a mood to take a chance on something different, this is where you can find it.
COMING UP!
2009-2010 Season
Now It Can Be Told: Plans 1 through 8
October 23, 24 & 25
A comic prequel to the Ed Wood, Jr movie, Plan 9 from Outer Space, widely regarded as the worst movie ever made. This original piece by Max Mania will, as the title implies, take us through the eight plans that preceded "Plan 9" and give us new insights into our alien adversaries. A world premier - such as it is.
Pulped!
Mid- March 2010
A spoken word tour through the best-of-the-worst of American Pulp Fiction from the 1940's-1960's. Hear: purple prose and messy metaphors! See: Our readers struggle to keep a straight face! Feel: A new appreciation for bad writing! And so much MORE!!!
Don't Touch That Dial
Late May 2010
Journey with us back to the heyday of radio melodrama... with a twist. DON'T TOUCH compresses a full year's worth of overblown soap opera drama into six quick episodes - each one written by a different writer. An affectionate spoof of the excesses of dramatic conventions, played for laughs by a talented cast.
And more surprises to be announced!
For information of Second Stage auditions and shows, please contact Max Mania at maxmaniamail@yahoo.com