Join us For our 8th year of quality, thought-provoking theatre
in the Historic Gryphon Theatre
Our eighth season celebrates Relative Theatrics’ efforts to cultivate new voices. By commissioning original plays, producing premiere productions, and developing new works with Playwrights Voiced, we support the important work required of playwrights, invest in the future of the American Theatre, and keep our finger on the pulse of contemporary issues. Join us as we empower artists and community alike, creating dialogue around important societal topics and strengthening the cultural vibrancy of our lives.
In a continued effort to promote diversity and gender parity on American stages, we have assembled a season of excellent un- and underproduced new plays by female playwrights. By diversifying the voices behind the work we present, Relative Theatrics tells stories of a wider range of individuals that better reflect the world in which we live. This creative endeavor furthers our desire to end the systemic underrepresentation of women in theatre.
In a continued effort to promote diversity and gender parity on American stages, we have assembled a season of excellent un- and underproduced new plays by female playwrights. By diversifying the voices behind the work we present, Relative Theatrics tells stories of a wider range of individuals that better reflect the world in which we live. This creative endeavor furthers our desire to end the systemic underrepresentation of women in theatre.
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World Premiere - Commissioned by The Wyoming Arts Council
AND THE WIND HOWLS
BY LEANN KIM TORSKE September 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12 - 2020 Jen returns to her small Wyoming hometown after an eye-opening first year of college. She wants a different life than her family had, but she’s decided that Wyoming might not be so bad after all. Her best friend Amber can’t wait to leave. The one thing they agree on is that their small town has never felt so small. Inspired by Wyoming’s history of trailblazing women, Jen buckles down to create social progress, change local politics, or if nothing else, show her mom that a rough-talking, hard-working Wyoming woman can shift the way the wind is blowing. AND THE WIND HOWLS was featured at the Wyoming Arts Council 2019 Summit.
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Wyoming Premiere
TWO DEGREES
BY TIRA PALMQUIST November 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14 - 2020 Emma Phelps is a paleoclimatologist, focusing on ice in Greenland. In drilling and studying ice core samples, she sees first hand the symptoms of our changing planet, which makes the need to act all the more crucial and urgent. In addition to her growing sense of urgency for the planet, Emma, as a recent widow, experiences grief that compounds itself with each passing month. Now she's been asked to come to Washington D.C. to testify in a Senate Committee regarding climate change legislation, and in this intersection of science and politics, of politics and the personal, she finds more than just a little is breaking up under the strain of change.
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New Play Premiere
BONE RECORDS
BY HEATHER BEASLEY February 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13 - 2021 In Communist Leningrad, three childhood friends form an unlikely alliance to bootleg American records. As Soviet leadership transitions from Stalin to Khrushchev, new hopes arise that cultural censorship may end at last. But can these three outsmart the secret police, outrun the Russian Mafia, and keep from betraying each other til the transformation comes? A tale of smuggled music, stolen moments, and underground rock and roll during the Cold War. A historic tale that takes us back in time in order to better examine our present. BONE RECORDS was featured in the Skatepark Stage Project and the Virtual Playwrights Voiced Festival of 2020.
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World Premiere - In Conjunction with UW Honors
RIDING BICYCLES IN THE RAIN
BY ERIN CONSIDINE April 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24 - 2021 Just outside of Nowhere sits a small farmhouse. Just inside that farmhouse sits an old marine with a lousy attitude and a heart bypass. Brady returns to both the farmhouse and the father she thought she’d left behind just long enough to get him back on his feet. While Brady is stagnating in suburbia she meets James, and together they ponder God, armadillos, and the possibility of falling in love. An intimate new play with well-paced dialogue and nuanced humor, RIDING BICYCLES IN THE RAIN was included in the 4th Annual Playwrights Voiced Festival.
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Plus! PLaywrights Voiced
A SERIES OF STAGED READINGS BY DEVELOPING PLAYWRIGHTS
May 19, 20, 21, 22 - 2021; Plays TBA
Relative Theatrics continues our goal of assisting in the development process of new work with this festival of staged readings from working playwrights across the nation.
May 19, 20, 21, 22 - 2021; Plays TBA
Relative Theatrics continues our goal of assisting in the development process of new work with this festival of staged readings from working playwrights across the nation.
