New 2019 Plays You Might Recall

Last year’s Arkansas New Play Festival introduced TheatreSquared audiences to these plays:

“Blanket Statements” — By the LatinX Theatre Project, it was a devised work created by the members of the company, under the mentorship of Ashley Edwards.

“Ain’t I a Woman” — By Na’Tosha De’Von, was a one-woman show that was “a funny, heartfelt story of the woes and wonders encountered by girls on the journey to womanhood, as seen through the eyes of the playwright and performer.” De’Von was an MFA acting student at the University of Arkansas.

“Carlo at the Wedding” — By Bryna Turner, was a “comic and heartfelt play about a woman attending an ex’s wedding.” Turner is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose play “Bull in a China Shop” premiered at Lincoln Center, where it was a New York Times Critic’s Pick.

“He Did It” — By Rachel Lynett, was a story about three friends who “are about to get the green light from a major production company. They’re about to get everything they ever wanted. Except that Jefferson has been recently accused of violent crimes. Ada and Lex both know he did it. Now, they both must decide what’s more important: their career success or ending a vicious cycle?” Lynett’s work has been featured at the Kennedy Center and Barrington Stage Company.

“Teen Dad” — By Adrienne Dawes, “subverts the popular regional theater ‘kitchen-sink beach house play,’ when Abby, a precocious emo-goth teenager, orchestrates a surprise reunion for her mother, Tanya, and birth father, Tom, with the help of her mom’s fiance/healer, John.” Dawes is an Afro-Latina playwright originally from Austin who studied comedy at The Second City in Chicago.