Fiorella also participates in the theater’s playwright’s lab as well as Truro Playwright’s Collective at the Truro Public Library.
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The series is wrapping up for the season now with two additional readings by playwrights Linda Fiorella and Jon Richardson, each offering vastly different new works, most notably one a comedic play and the other a musical.įiorella, who is also the town’s licensing agent, has explored a variety of writing genres, but came to writing dialogue for the stage by participating in the Provincetown Theater’s 24-Hour Play festival, in which a ten-minute piece is written, staged, and performed within one full day. The program, part of the Stephen Mindich Literary Project funded by Mindich’s widow, retired judge Maria Lopez, included this past winter presentations of work by Sarah Schulman and Racine Oxtoby, both of which packed the house, according to Drake. “Attendance to hear these new plays-in-development has been bountiful, and the way the audiences have been receiving them and discussing afterwards with the playwrights is a testament to the intelligence and hunger our community has for new works.” “This year’s spring Play Dates series has been going fantastically well,” says David Drake, the Theater’s artistic director. As part of that effort the Provincetown Theater established the Play Dates program, an opportunity for local playwrights to workshop new pieces of theater.
While presenting productions by established playwrights is an integral part of its mission, so is giving space and support for emerging playwrights on the Outer Cape. Even on the quietest of winter nights it’s never a surprise to see a warm glow coming out of the Provincetown Theater as the Bradford Street theatrical institution succeeds in being an incubator of creativity and imagination year-round.
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