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Jonathan M
Ewart
and Old Courthouse
Theatre
Announce
The
Second Season of
the
LIVING
ROOM READING SERIES
TIME: Beginning @ 4:00
pm
WHERE: Black Box Stage of
OCT
49 Spring Street
NW
Concord, NC 28025
COST: Free
Admission.
Follow what is happening with the Living Room Reading series by reading the LRRS blog.
January 23, 2011: The World premiere of
"Mrs. Murphy's Porch" by Wysteria
Edwards
A memory play, Mrs. Murphy’s Porch is set in 1986 and the
present. Penny ( a girl in her late- twenties) recalls the year “her eyes were
opened” by personal tragedy, and those who participated in her imaginary
adventures. The play begins with the words of Ronald Reagan as he speaks to the
nation in the wake of the NASA Challenger Disaster. Penny’s best-friend, Henry
is devastated by the loss. While the town discusses the tragedy with sadness,
Penny’s mother and father consult the family doctor and neighborhood matriarch,
Mrs. Murphy, about the impending loss overshadowing Penny. Should they force
her to stop pretending and face the truth? Does imagination help a child come
to terms with grief in their own way? Through imaginative play, Mrs. Murphy
guides Penny to a place where she can finally face the tragedy behind the
door
Mrs. Murphy's Porch
coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Challenger
Disaster.
*Reader's theatre is a style of theatre in which the actors do not memorize their lines. Rather, they either go through their blocking holding scripts and reading off their lines, or else sit/stand together on a stage and read through the script together. In Reader's theatre, actors use vocal expression to help the audience understand the story rather than visual storytelling such as sets, costumes, and intricate blocking. | 
