The Script Society Reads "Clown Bar Christmas" by Adam Szymkowicz
About this Event
The Script Society is our collaborative play reading group led by Roxanne Baker. Let's enjoy drama without the anxiety of memorizing lines or donning costumes! Choose a Reader ticket if you'd like an assigned role and the chance to participate in the reading, or a Listener ticket if you'd prefer to sit back, follow along, and enjoy the performance unfolding around you. No experience required; all you need is curiosity, enthusiasm, and a love of great storytelling.
This month's selection is Adam Szymkowicz's Clown Bar Christmas—an edgy, gleefully absurd holiday comedy that combines Christmas cheer with the seedy underworld of organized clown crime. A prequel to Szymkowicz's cult favorite Clown Bar, the play finds the denizens of the Clown Bar together during a snowstorm, entertaining a pair of young clowns with holiday stories while gangsters, assassins, crooners, and other colorful characters populate the festivities. Part noir parody, part twisted Christmas special, and entirely its own strange creation, Clown Bar Christmas is fast, funny, theatrical, and especially well suited to a group reading. Expect holiday spirit—just not necessarily the wholesome kind.
We will meet in person in the loft at our store at The Mark, 117 S. Pineapple Ave. The book club is $19, which is the cost of your copy of Clown Bar Christmas to be picked up at Bookstore1 any time before our meeting. If you have any questions, please email [email protected].
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Adam Szymkowicz’s plays have been produced throughout the U.S., and in Canada, England, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Greece, Slovenia and Lithuania. His published full-length plays include Food For Fish, Hearts Like Fists, Incendiary, Clown Bar, The Why Overhead, Deflowering Waldo, Pretty Theft, Adventures of Super Margaret, 7 Ways To Say I Love You, Rare Birds, Marian, or The True Tale of Robin Hood and Nerve. His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service, Samuel French, Playscripts, Broadway Play Publishing, Original Works Publishing, and have been featured in New York Theatre Review, The Dionysian, NYTE’s Cino Nights, Geek Theater and numerous Smith and Kraus books. Adam was a featured playwright at The Armory’s JAW: A Playwrights Festival, served twice as playwright in residence at the William Inge Center, and took part in The Dramatists Guild Fund’s Traveling Masters program. He has been commissioned by South Coast Repertory, Rising Phoenix Repertory, Texas State University, The NOLA Project, Single Carrot Theatre and Flux Theatre Ensemble. He received a Playwright’s Diploma from The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program and an M.F.A. from Columbia University, where he was a Dean’s Fellow. He is a two-time Lecomte du Nouy Prize winner, a member of the Dramatists Guild and Writer’s Guild of America, and was a member of Primary Stages’ Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, the MCC Theater Playwrights’ Coalition, and the first Ars Nova Play Group. He has interviewed 1,000 playwrights on his blog. He is currently the literary manager at The Juilliard School.
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR:
Roxanne Baker hails from the mecca of film, Rochester, NY, where she introduced films at the George Eastman House. Since she arrived in Florida, she has moderated film talk-backs at Burns Court and taught Film Appreciation at Sarasota Art Museum through Osher Life Long Learning.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 22.41
