Summer Play Festival: 16 Plays announced

The Summer Play Festival has announced the 16 plays to be part of its 4th anniversary season. The plays were selected from a record-breaking number of submissions. More than 1000 scripts were received from all over the world.

The Summer Play Festival will run at Theatre Row from 10 Jul - 5 Aug 2007. Tickets remain $10 each.

The plays selected this year are:

• Alice in War
  Playwright: Steven Bogart
  Synopsis: Follows young Alice, Bianca, and Rabbit who discover a war zone, bizarre generals, creepy creatures and other mysterious surprises on the other side of their basement wall.
• Blueprint
  Playwright: Bixby Elliot
  Synopsis: Questions professional and personal interests after an architecture professor develops a complicated relationship with his ambitious student that may or may not cross the line.
• Cipher
  Playwright: Cory Hinkle
  Synopsis: A dark and timely investigation of an anxious world constantly under the threat of attack. The play is about two clerks who monitor the thoughts of terrorists and what happens when they ask questions surrounding a troubled teenage boy.
• Devil Land
  Playwright: Desi Moreno-Penson
  Synopsis: A dark and gothic fairy-tale for the contemporary world about a childless couple who kidnap a young girl to build their own family, and what happens when the girl�s imaginary friend comes to life to help her.
• Flesh and the Desert
  Playwright: Carson Kreitzer
  Synopsis: A kaleidoscopic biography of the living and breathing Las Vegas complete with Elvis, Liberace, Siegfried and Roy, Bugsy Siegel and Showgirls.
• The Gabriels
  Playwright: Van Badham
  Synopsis: A dark comedy about an unconventional family reunion involving two sets of partners and their children over Easter weekend.
• Half of Plenty
  Playwright: Lisa Dillman
  Synopsis: Shows what happens when a suspiciously-named family moves across the street and two neighbors take matters into their own hands.
• Lower Ninth
  Playwright: Beau Willimon
  Synopsis: Two men are stranded on the roof of their house after a horrific storm. They battle heat, hunger, thirst and each other while keeping their strength and faith.
• Minor Gods
  Playwright: Charles Forbes
  Synopsis: About Henry, a geneticist who hires a male prostitute the night before he plans to reveal a world-changing scientific breakthrough.
• Missing Celia Rose
  Playwright: Ian August
  Synopsis: A town that harmoniously integrates its white townspeople with its black slaves after the Civil War faces a troubling future when a young white boy uncovers the truth surrounding the disappearance of the beloved black Minister�s wife.
• My Wandering Boy
  Playwright: Julie Marie Myatt
  Synopsis: A journey across the vast landscape of America about a private detective hired to find a lost boy who discovers a trail filled with those who fiercely protect his secrets.
• The Nightshade Family
  Playwright: Ruth McKee
  Synopsis: About Hannah and her estranged brother who appears one day and refuses to leave, unraveling what sanity if left in her life. The dark comedy is about why familial bonds are impossible to break.
• Not Waving
  Playwright: Ellen Melaver
  Synopsis: A play about the lines drawn and crossed by three couples at the beach over the course of one day; leaving them to decide if they can rely on the one they love the most.
• Novel
  Playwright: Anna Ziegler
  Synopsis: About a widowed writer at a conference who discovers a group of unusual world-record holders, and what happens when their presence sparks his imagination.
• Unfold Me
  Playwright: Joy Tomasko
  Synopsis: A love triangle involving a woman diagnosed with an illness, her boyfriend, and death.
• Vrooommm! A NASComedy
  Playwright: Janet Allard
  Synopsis: About Holly �Leggs� Nelson, the first woman in NASCAR, �Hotshot,� the rookie with the hots for her, and the fast-paced life on the car-racing circuit.