Thu 3/3-Sat 3/5 @ 7PM
Cleveland Public Theatre is known for presenting theater works at all stages of development, from readings to fully staged productions. Its series, Test Flight, is one opportunity they offer playwrights with works in development to take them out for a spin and see what needs to be done before they’re ready to be fully staged.
This year’s Test Flight 2022 runs for three weekends and while they say “We believe this series is part of a larger story of CPT’s role in the national theatre field, our core membership in the National New Play Network utilized as a platform to launch underrepresented/under-produced playwright-creators (particularly women and people of color), and how this work is raising the profile of Cleveland as far as developing theatre that is outside the mainstream,” the opening weekend features a work by a well-known white male Cleveland playwright, David Hansen.
The Witches, directed by Melissa Crum and co-directed by Carrie Williams, tells the story of a noted influence who visits the Bradbury Witch Dungeon Museum (“the 23rdmost popular witch-themed attraction in Massachusetts”), and stirs up some old ghosts and some trouble. It will be followed by Hannah Rae Leach’s Bedroom Culture (3/10-12) and Obediya Jones-Darrell’s Speak Easy (3/17-19).
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