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SWFL PREMIERE!
This scathing new comedy from the author of August: Osage County is about small-town politics and real-world power. It exposes the ugliness behind some of our most closely-held American narratives while asking each of us what we would do to keep from becoming history’s losers.
“You will probably leave at the end with very mixed feelings, but you will talk about it, think about it, and go away with the knowledge that you have never seen anything like it.” – Observer.com
Performance dates:
April 11, 12, 17, 18, 24, 25, 26 at 7:30 pm
April 13, 19, 20, 27 at 2 pm
Special Events:
April 9, 10 at 7: 30 pm Half-price preview nights
April 12 at 7:30 pm Teens get a free ticket to the performance (reservations required)
April 24 at 7:30 PM Sensory-friendly performance
The Minutes is sponsored by Arlene Foreman.
We Remember is a Holocaust remembrance program inspired and designed to remember those lost in the Holocaust as well as inspire understanding and unity. Holocaust Remembrance, or Yom HaShoah in Hebrew, memorializes the estimated 12 million people, six million of them Jews, and other people murdered in the Holocaust, as well as the heroism of the survivors and rescuers.
For this year’s observance, Lab Theater is inviting the southwest Florida community to come together to pay respects to the Holocaust victims in a show of support and mutual understanding of the steep cost of hate, indifference, and fear.
Speakers and readers will include clergy, Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz of the Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, Fort Myers, Dr. Robert Hilliard, a WWII liberator and rescuer, and various community leaders.
Sharing Holocaust remembrance with diverse community members will help us to see the shared struggles and commonalities between us as humans, as well as build unity and foster understanding of our differences.
“If we are to truly honor the memory of the Holocaust victims and help stop ongoing and future genocidal atrocities, we must be vigilant and aware of hate-fueled persecution happening to any members of the human family and act in any way we can to help them not suffer the same consequences as the victims of the Holocaust did,” said Ella Nayor, Laboratory Theater of Florida Holocaust and Human Rights Education Outreach Director.
Concert readings of the three Louise Wigglesworth Excellence in Playwriting New Play Contest.
As a teaching theater, one of the things The Lab does is promote the creation of new work. A play need to be heard and worked on before it is ready to be produced. The Lab accepts hundreds of scripts from around the world and selects the top three for a concert reading.
2025 WINNER – Lumin by Emma Gibson, May 17th
The pigs are stressed, Liv won’t eat, and Ma wants everyone to follow the Constitutions. Set in a modern-day cult on the outskirts of the Chihuahuan desert in Texas, this new play about our need for community asks why the line between delusion and what the rest of us believe is getting blurrier than ever.
FINALIST – Virtual Reality by Wendy Vogel, May 16th
Rebecca is used to men letting her down. Scarred by divorce, she avoids the real world by playing a virtual reality role-playing game. She isn’t looking for romance but she finds Paul, a widower crippled by grief from the death of his wife.
Through their in-game avatars, they bond in the virtual world with no plans to meet in the real one.
FINALIST – Annelies by Oded Gross, May 15th
The present collides with the past in the drama Annelies. Mourning the loss of his father, a bereaved man in 2020 begins to keep a journal, only to find himself in correspondence with the famous and tragic diarist, Anne Frank. A play about grief and friendship, Annelies explores the strength and legacy of the written word, and its power to change our lives forever.
