The Laboratory Theater of Florida’s award-winning education department offers a variety of classes, workshops, seminars, and camps to allow local actors to optimize their talents with a solid base of skills. This is just one of the reasons The Laboratory Theater of Florida is known as Thinking Theater ®
The Laboratory Theater of Florida: Education is the proud home of The Louise Wigglesworth Excellence in Playwriting Award, an award created to honor one of the co-founders of the Lab – the award-winning playwright Louise Wigglesworth, and Scripts Uncensored, a program dedicated to read and discussed banned scripts.
The Children’s Hour
By Lillian Hellman
On Sunday, April 27, from 6 pm – 9 pm, the Scripts Uncensored banned scripts reading group will meet for a group reading of Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour, moderated by Paula Sisk. A discussion of the play, and why some wish for it to be removed from access follows the reading.
THE STORY:
One lie. Two women. A scandal that could destroy everything. Don’t miss Scripts Uncensored: The Children’s Hour, a group reading of Lillian Hellman’s explosive classic that still resonates today. Join us for this thought-provoking evening of drama and discussion.
Join us for a powerful evening as Scripts Uncensored presents a reading of The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman. Set in a girls’ boarding school in the 1930s, this gripping drama centers on the devastating fallout of a malicious lie and explores themes of truth, reputation, and societal expectations. It was groundbreaking in its time and remains urgently relevant.
This is a free event, but please register in advance!
by Annette Trossbach, retired co-Founder of The Laboratory Theater of Florida, using survey results from 100 SWFL theater artists involved in any theatrical production in southwest Florida (including high school, community, college, and professional theatrical productions) over the last ten years.
“I have had a Director stick his tongue down my throat. I have overheard a Director complaining about my personal boundaries to a cast member he is close with. I have seen text messages that my friends have gotten from a Director who wanted to get with them. And this was in a private high school. I know about intimacy choreographers. I’ve heard about them but I have never had the pleasure of working with one. I think it’s sorely needed in Fort Myers. PS. My experience in High school theatre arts has left me not sure if I even want to do theatre anymore.”
(One of the written responses to the survey)
Download the full report here.
