MAP READING
MAP Reading is a monthly play reading series based out of my home (which happens to be an old Map Factory). I’m increasingly interested in creating communities where artists and audiences have opportunities to hear diverse plays representing the multiple perspectives of the past, present, and imagined future. I want to create space for us to examine the written word in its purest sense. MAP Reading asks participants to leave words like “good” or “bad” at the door and consider the power and effectiveness of a playwright’s words through the use of non-traditional casting and cold reading.
Up Next
The Mineola Twins by Paula Vogel
June 25 at 7:30pm
A comedy in six scenes, four dreams and seven wigs. There are two ways to produce this play: 1) with good wigs; or 2) with bad wigs. The second way is preferred. Myrna and Myra, almost identical twins, battle each other through the Eisenhower, Nixon and Reagan/Bush years over virginity, Vietnam and Family Values.
Past MAP Readings
Evelyn in Purgatory
by Topher Payne
When a complaint is filed against one of the 70,000 teachers in New York’s public schools, they’re sent to a Reassignment Center, one of a series of empty offices in the Department of Education Building. There, they sit and wait for their case to be reviewed. Usually for months. Sometimes for over a year.
A claim of improper behavior by a failing student lands Evelyn Reid there where she encounters a group of teachers, some guilty, some not and some who have long since lost any hope of returning to a classroom.
Over the course of the school year, through Evelyn’s impressive ability to create community, these colleagues form an unlikely alliance, reminding each other of forgotten passions, some emerging to face life outside in unexpected new directions. But Evelyn remains strangely silent about her own past as her colleagues dig to uncover her truth. (They also learn French and workshop a screenplay.)
