RAVEN'S NEW PLAY WORKSHOP SERIES PRESENTS A READING OF:
ONE TIME
by Richard Lyons Conlon
directed by Cody Estle
Featuring Michael Menendian & JoAnn Montemurro
SOMETIMES IT TAKES A LIFETIME OF STORIES TO TELL THE STORY OF A LIFETIME.
Sonia and Mason’s rather unusual friendship ended abruptly and mysteriously over thirty years ago. They now meet weekly to tell each other stories from their lives apart. They touch on – among other things –unrequited love, an accidental shooting, posing in the nude, an abusive marriage, religious epiphanies, and nuns miniaturizing first-graders. Can they rediscover whatever it was that drew them together? And what exactly happened so long ago?
Richard Lyons Conlon has written over twenty-five plays and screenplays, including his latest, 7 MINUTES TO LIVE, which will be workshopped by The Poor Theatre in Chicago this July/August. A two-term Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists, his comedy-drama ONE TIME was premiered at Next Act Theatre in Milwaukee in April 2012, and has also been workshopped at Urban Stages in New York and at Chicago Dramatists. ONE TIME is also a Finalist for the Emerging Playwrights Award at Urban Stages, as well as the Hidden River Playwrighting (sic) Award, Philadelphia, PA, and the New Play Initiative Award, Grove Theatre Center, Long Beach, CA. His drama SEND FORTH THY MERCIES was First Runner-up in the Eileen Heckart Drama Competition and Winner of the Emerging Illinois Playwrights Competition. A children’s play ANASTASIA AND DRIZELLA continues to be published by Eldridge Publishing and has received well over three hundred productions. A proud member of The Dramatists Guild, Richard was Artistic Director of the Chernobog Theatre Company, where his plays REMNANTS and POSTHUMOUSLY SPEAKING were premiered. In a former life, he appeared on-stage in a variety of roles, from Stanley Kowalski to Petruchio to Chief Sitting Bull.
Reading of ONE TIME
Monday, June 24 at 7:30pm
Tickets: Free
This event is being presented in association with Edgewater Reads —an initiative by Alderman Harry Osterman's office to celebrate and encourage reading among Edgewater residents in anticipation of the new Edgewater Branch Library opening this month! A variety of events that promote reading in a fun, positive and educational way are planned to harness enthusiasm and bring community members together through literacy.
