7 Stages Theatre Uncorks New Plays With ‘Home Brew’ Workshop
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7 Stages Theater in Little Five Points is getting new work by local playwrights out into the world in stripped-down performances, and they’re inviting the audience to help determine the future of these plays.
The current production in their “Home Brew” series is Theroun Patterson’s “Red Summer,” a show which draws connections between an attack on a young black man on a whites-only beach in 1919 and a modern day corporate battlefield.
7 Stages artistic director Heidi Howard says they give the writer the theater space and their stable of actors for a week, ending in a staged reading.
In that process, the playwright receives feedback from actors, the director and the audience alike, and is designed to help them polish their new works into shape.
Patterson calls the chance to work in this environment “monumental.”
“The whole spirit of theater is about collaboration, right?” Patterson asks. “And for me to get a play done, I can’t do it alone.”
“Red Summer” will get a staged reading at 7 Stages on Saturday at 2 p.m.
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