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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.
