Mon 4/27 @ 7PM
Cleveland Heights’ Dobama Theatre, which presents new, cutting-edge and often socially relevant theater, also has a professional playwright unit called The Playwrights’ GYM. It meets monthly so writers can share what they’re working on and get informed feedback from other members. It currently has about a dozen members, including some very well-known local names and others we haven’t heard — yet.
This month’s reading, taking place in the Dobama Arts Space on the second floor of its theater, is …Da Bronx Is Burn’n by Dayshawnda Ash. It’s described as a “visceral, movement-driven play set in the Bronx in the late 70s.” That era, one of the lowest points in NYC history, was noted for the Bronx landlords who burned down their own buildings rather than keep them up, leaving vast swaths of the borough vacant. Ash’s play revolves around a teenage girl named Jamie watching as the city burns up and finding refuge in dance as a tool of survival and self-discovery.
The reading is free and open to all.