NEWvember 2015 Festival Pass

Tangent Theatre Company, in association with AboutFACE Ireland, presents their fifth NEWvember New Plays Festival - new plays, bold voices, one weekend. See all six compelling works by these emerging playwrights, via rehearsed staged readings.

November 5, Thursday 8pm:

The Third Rail by Jacob Perkins:  Two couples are reeling (and concealing) as past secrets start coming to light and the fragility of love is examined in this sensitive, surprising story set in winter-night Brooklyn.

November 6, Friday 8pm:

The Mongoose by Will Arbery:  Young Kay tries to hold her family together, as Mom goes missing, Dad brings home strange men, Joe grows violent, and Maddy talks with a mongoose in the walls, in this wild, astounding family drama.

(post-show Q+A with playwright)

November 7, Saturday 2pm:

Last Flight of the Mercenary by Karen Howes: A fantastical romantic comedy of star-crossed love and quantum mechanics, set at a Canadian cliff side B+B, which hosts weddings that tend to turn out catastrophically.

(post-show Q+A with playwright)

November 7, Saturday 8pm:

The Other Genius by Steven Haworth: A razor-sharp comedy of love triangles, master criminals, art deals, family secrets, murder plots, Oedipal rivalry and Serbian ninjas.

(post-show Q+A with playwright)

November 8, Sunday 2pm:

The Orange Garden by Joanna Garner:  In this political drama set in 1970s Iran and America, Peace Corps volunteer John finds himself caught up in a culture-clash whirlwind of danger and forbidden romance.

November 8, Sunday 6pm (note showtime):

Love, Love: Last Stand at Helm's Deep by Peter Papadopoulos: It's the end of the world, and Kit, Von, Helen and Carter are trying to hold on, in this bold tale of love and loss, computers and cockroaches, and stardust.

(post-show Q+A with playwright)

 Please note, our intimate theater space has limited seating. We ask that you kindly arrive on time (theater opens fifteen minutes before the show). Please keep in mind, unclaimed seats will be released just before show-time to anyone waiting on stand-by.  Thanks!