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April 7, 2005

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Five playwrights are experiencing the thrill of seeing their works emerge from scripts to stage. Audiences will soon share in the excitement during the 2005 Edward Albee New Playwrights Workshop at the University of Houston.

Since 1989, student playwrights have submitted scripts to be selected for development and production in this workshop. This year’s plays will be performed in the School of Theatre’s Jose Quintero Lab Theatre and were groomed under the supervision of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and UH Distinguished Lecturer Lanford Wilson.

“I help set these student playwrights’ hearts at ease during the early stages of rehearsals when actors are still learning lines,” Wilson said. “I remind them that these plays soon will begin to take shape and come alive on the stage.”

Each play is approximately one hour in length and will be performed in the following order. All performances are free and open to the public.

7:30 p.m. April 26, 28, 30

• “Permanent Daylight” by Daryl Banner. A disconnected family tries to cope with the unexpected death of its son.
• “Peaches” by Soo-Jin Lee. Korean Americans discuss dating, growing up Asian and love. This play contains brief nudity.
• “Owen Wister Considered” by Nina McConigley. A Mormon, a Hindu and a cowboy are stranded in a hotel.

7:30 p.m. April 27, 29 and 2 p.m. May 1

• “Bed” by Donna Perkins. A woman tries to control her most prized territory…her bed.
• “Raven Hill” by Ken Watkins. As a woman loses her faculties, her children engage in self-destructive behavior.

WHAT:   2005 Edward Albee New Playwrights Workshop

WHEN:   Tuesday, April 26 – Sunday, May 1

WHERE: Jose Quintero Lab Theatre
               University of Houston - Entrance 16
               Houston, TX 77204-5017

WHO:     The University of Houston’s School of Theatre

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