Playwrights Forum

The Playwrights Forum features the work of local writers. Readings in June, July and August will be held on the 3rd Monday of the month at the Encinitas Library.

ETC Invites you to a reading of Matt Thompson’s full length play:

Norman & Bernice have been married 50 years but can still surprise each other - even if it's only birthday cakes. They can still argue. It's about tiny things now, because after all, the really big things have already been settled on. Settled on because their younger selves are still side by side on stage in the thick of life's hurdles. Goes to show you, some things change while others never do.

The author of over twenty plays, Matt Thompson serves as Theatre School Director for North Coast Rep. He s the former artistic director of Compass Theatre and a long time performer at Disneyland.

When: Monday, August 16, 6-8 p.m.
Where: Encinitas Library Community Room
540 Cornish Drive, Encinitas
JOIN: ETC’s writer’s group. Have your plays heard.

Past Readings

Monday, June 21 | 6:00-8:00 p.m.
THE IMMORTALITY OF MARJORIE RAYBURN by Judith Montague

A fictional accounting of the Henrietta Lacks incident in biological research. This play has been read at the San Diego Repertory and the South Coast Rep.

 

April 19 | Kangaroo by Marguerite Hillman
Kangaroo offers a dark, comedic examination of a parent’s death. He could be a great dad when he wanted to be. He could also be mean spirited, unfair, even perverse. At least now, he’s dead. Or is he? In the second act, good old Lyle’s corpse rises up from his daybed and proceeds to muck up the family dynamic - just as he did when he was alive. His three daughters and four sons all bear the bruisings of his power. Perhaps the most painful part is they all bear different bruises. Mom is another story. Is she a victim or a part time accomplice?