Member Productions

I want to invite everyone to the United Nations Orange Day reading of my new play THE SUBJECT, hosted by Sell a Door Theatre Company.  Events are FREE to attend.

There are two opportunities to see THE SUBJECT:

1) Sunday, May 22 at 5:30 PM at Upstairs at The Arts, 6-7 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JB.

Featuring Alfred Enoch (HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER, HARRY POTTER), Peter Guinness (STAN LEE'S LUCKY MAN, CASUALTY), and Rachel Bright (EASTENDERS, A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED). Directed by Anna Fox.

Followed by a drinks reception.

More info: https://www.selladoor.com/development/new-writing

2) Wednesday, May 25 at 7:30 PM at Sell a Door Theatre studio room (1 Creek Road, London SE8 3BT) with an all-new cast of actors. Directed by Grace Joseph.  

Both events are free of charge, but optional charity donations to United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women and Rape Crisis England and Wales will be gratefully accepted.

About the play:
Princess Sophia’s family is one of the most dysfunctional in history, with notoriously mad father King George III, drug-dependent mother Queen Charlotte, sex addict brother Ernest, and agoraphobe sister Augusta. When Sophia is attacked and fights to bring the criminal to justice, her family instead seeks to mastermind a cover-up of the secret for fear of losing the throne. A feminist take on history exploring the crisis of sexual assault cover-ups. 

f you would like to attend, please email Maddy at maddy@selladoor.com and note which date. You are welcome to bring guests. We would love to see you there!  

Thank you, 
Carolyn Kras
www.carolynkras.com

A short comedy set at Churchill Downs on Derby will be given a staged reading at Harvest Coffee & Cafe in Shelbyville, KY, on Thursday, May 19, 2016, at 7 pm. A big floppy hat creates confusion, fun, and romance. Music and monologues will also be presented at this free program.

Three Voices/3V Theatre presents staged readings of short plays inspired by the topic "Mother, May I?" on Mother's Day, at Access Theatre, 380 Broadway, New York City. A high school graduate sneaks into the lab where her mother works to talk privately with her mother about the final three child support checks due before the young woman turns 18. Tickets are $10. 

Shirley King's first play won a California Arts Council award. In the past three years her plays have been performed in the US, Korea, The UK, Canada and Scotland. In 2015 eighteen of her plays and monologues were selected for productions or readings. Four were published in 2015. Her play WHATEVER was performed January 11, 2016 by Lama Theater Company, NYC. Her play ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE and her monologue AUTHENTICITY were also performed February 8, 2016 by Lama Theater Company, NYC. FREEZE was performed by Readers Theatre of San Pedro 2-23-2016. TO TALK OR NOT TO TALK --THAT IS THE QUESTION was performed by Somerset College April 15, 16 2016. THE TEA PARTY was performed by The Oneness Project: RADD Fest 2016.

One act play “Soldier of two wars” written by Ibadete Abazi;  Directed by Elhame Kutllovci. Has been premiered on December 18th 2015 in Dodona Theatre in Prishtina, Kosovo. With actors: Sheqerie Buqaj & Avni Abazi. We are working to show our play on may 2016 at The Producers Club in New York

Story: An Albanian American soldier who served in Bosnia joins the war in Kosovo in 1998 as a Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) member. After the war, he is left alone, wounded and without support from either the US or the KLA. He is blocked in Hotel Tirana in Albania where he meets Adriana, a rich Kosovo Albanian. After 15 years of marriage in post-war Kosovo, one late night, the couple starts a quarrel because their five months old son is crying. Jimmy asks Adriana to calm the boy, while Adriana complains that Jimmy does not support her at home. After a fierce debate over who is right and who is guilty, the conflict escalates to physical attack. Jimmy suddenly falls on his knees from pain caused by a bullet that he has in his body. Adriana benefits from it and takes control of the situation.

First Woman of Industry, based on the life of a German immigrant to Louisville, Kentucky, (1817?-1874?), is included in Rover Dramawerks' 365 Women a Year Festival, in Plano, Texas. When widowed, Catherine Danenhold took over her husband's business manufacturing stoneware and pottery, an unusual occupation for a woman in her day. Performances are Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8 pm with one matinee at 2 pm on the second Saturday. Prices are $16-22.

JUNE 15, 2016, 7PM: Sandra de Helen will read from her new thriller, Till Darkness Comes, at Another Read Through Bookstore, 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, Oregon, USA. She will sign any of her books, and they are all for sale at Another Read Through, as well as online at amazon. 

"Believers," by Patricia Milton, is a post-apocalyptic romantic comedy about love, drugs, and unexpected side effects. It will play Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, April 8-30, 2016, at Paper Wing Theatre, 2115 Fremont St, Monterey, CA 93940. Tickets available here.

"Believers” is inspired by the Grimm’s fairy tale, The Frog King, and takes place in a pharmaceutical lab in the immediate dystopian future. It was most recently seen in Istanbul, Turkey, staged by Lavanta Productions. 

Learn more about the play.

"Letters from Lotfia," a short play about the friendship between pilots Lotfia El Nadi and Amelia Earhart, is part of the "In Her Words" Festival, April 15-17, 13th Street Repertory Company, 50 West 13th Street, New York. "Letters from Lotfia" will be read at 11:00 a.m., 4/16/16. Written by Laura Shamas.