Reading Resistance: May Marathon
Schedule
Sat May 30 2026 at 01:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Old Stone House of Brooklyn | Brooklyn, NY
About this Event
Join us for a full day of new plays from emerging Brooklyn playwrights!
Explore themes ranging from necessary secrets, to Homeric rescues. From the troubles of Dirt, to severe weather in the conscience of the Midwest.
Whimsy, dark edges, and busted stereotypes are on display back to back with silly solutions and stubborn ghosts.
Refreshments and puppets will be served!
Ticketing:
If you'd like to attend more than one reading, you do not need to purchase more than one ticket. Your ticket is good for re-entry to any of the six plays.
Schedule:
1:00 PM
WASH A one-act play by John P. McEneny
Upstate New York, 1965. In a narrow kitchen filled with rain, laundry, and unspoken labor, two sisters face the cost of survival in a world that offers women no safe choices. When Mary comes to Martha for help, responsibility replaces mercy, and work replaces consolation. Wash is a quiet reckoning with reproductive danger, moral inheritance, and the unseen endurance required to keep living after tragedy.
HIDDEN HALLOWS A one-act play by John P. McEneny
In a low-ceilinged basement beneath a sleeping model train set, three women in their seventies collide with the secret that has held their lives together for fifty years. When Deborah Lee insists on confession, Sharon responds with containment, and Tabby clings to civility as the room turns into a moral trap. The dialogue moves fast because silence would mean choosing sides. Hidden Hallows is a dark, tightly-wound reckoning about guilt, control, and the stories we build to survive what we did.
3:00 PM
BAROMETRIC PRESSURE by Bree O'Connor
It's 1986 and hotter'n Hades on a hot plate when Tammy Gustafson arrives home with groceries and a lasagna dinner for her husband and teenage daughter. It isn't long before she discovers a pile of overdue bills, her nice throw blankets smellin' like the hogs out back, and an unwanted house guest. Before the sun sets, the Gustafsons unwittingly play host to both literal and metaphorical storms that threaten their family, home, livelihood and the soul of the United States of America.
6:00 PM
HOMECOMING by Beth Harpaz
A billionaire wants to buy a prize-winning newspaper. The publisher is resisting. Then a mysterious stranger walks in ...
99 BOTTLES OF BEER by Beth Harpaz
A man is spewing hatred on the subway. Passengers are helpless to stop him — until one rider finds a way for them to band together.
8:00 PM Michelle Beshaw's
EN MER AVEC LOUISE BOURGEOIS by Michelle Beshaw
A tabletop, found object puppet piece based on the life and work of the artist Louise Bourgeois. Born in Paris in 1911 to complicated parents, this excerpt explores her early life, and feelings about the people, places and events that would inspire and animate her art well into her 90s. “My childhood” she would say,”has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, it has never lost its drama.”
Agenda
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
HIDDEN HALLOWS & WASH
Host: John P. McEneny
Info: WASH
A one-act play by John P. McEneny
Upstate New York, 1965. In a narrow kitchen filled with rain, laundry, and unspoken labor, two sisters face the cost of survival in a world that offers women no safe choices. When Mary comes to Martha for help, responsibility replaces mercy, and work replaces consolation. Wash is a quiet reckoning with reproductive danger, moral inheritance, and the unseen endurance required to keep living after tragedy.
HIDDEN HALLOWS
A one-act play by John P. McEneny
In a low-ceilinged basement beneath a sleeping model train set, three women in their seventies collide with the secret that has held their lives together for fifty years. When Deborah Lee insists on confession, Sharon responds with containment, and Tabby clings to civility as the room turns into a moral trap. The dialogue moves fast because silence would mean choosing sides. Hidden Hallows is a dark, tightly-wound reckoning about guilt, control, and the stories we build to survive what we did.
🕑: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
BAROMETRIC PRESSURE
Host: Bree O'Connor
Info: Barometric Pressure
by Bree O'Connor
It's 1986 and hotter'n Hades on a hot plate when Tammy Gustafson arrives home with groceries and a lasagna dinner for her husband and teenage daughter. It isn't long before she discovers a pile of overdue bills, her nice throw blankets smellin' like the hogs out back, and an unwanted house guest. Before the sun sets, the Gustafsons unwittingly play host to both literal and metaphorical storms that threaten their family, home, livelihood and the soul of the United States of America.
🕑: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM
99 BOTTLES & HOMECOMING
Host: Beth Harpaz
🕑: 08:00 PM - 08:30 PM
EN MER AVEC LOUISE BOURGEOIS
Host: Michelle Beshaw
Where is it happening?
Old Stone House of Brooklyn, 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 28.52
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