The Script Society Reads "Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom"

The Script Society is a limited-series collaborative group reading of dramatic works, led by Roxanne Baker. No experience required!
About this Event

The Script Society is our limited-series collaborative play reading group led by Roxanne Baker. Let's use the hazy, lazy days of summer to 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.
Our next pick is Jennifer Haley's Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom —winner of the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a Los Angeles Ovation Award, and the Fracesca Primus Prize. Darkly funny, eerie, and inventive, the play blurs the boundaries between suburban life and online gaming culture. Set in a seemingly ordinary neighborhood where teenagers become obsessed with a mysterious horror video game, the story unfolds like a psychological thriller, asking unsettling questions about technology, isolation, violence, and the worlds we create to escape ourselves. Equal parts satire and suspense, Neighborhood 3 is a uniquely theatrical experience and an especially fun one to read aloud together.
We will meet in person in the loft at our store at The Mark, 117 S. Pineapple Ave. The book club is $15.95, which is the cost of your copy of Neighborhood 3 to be picked up at Bookstore1 any time before our meeting. If you have any questions, please email [email protected].

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Jennifer Haley is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose work often explores the uneasy intersections of technology, identity, and human behavior. Her plays include The Nether, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Froggy, and Breadcrumbs. Neighborhood 3 won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a Los Angeles Ovation Award, and the Francesca Primus Prize, and helped establish Haley as one of contemporary theater’s sharpest and most unsettling voices.

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.