Save the earth.
Save ourselves.
Environmental Play Reading Series
The Scoundrel and Scamp is pleased to offer three exciting, new, and contemporary plays that speak to the essential theme Save the Earth, Save Ourselves.
Each play will focus on environmental elements and topics such as water, pollution, and bee conservation.
Play Readings
KAYAK
BY JORDAN HALL
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25TH
DIRECTED BY ROWEENA MACKAY
A doting suburban mother, Annie is blindsided when her son, Peter, falls in love with Julie, a passionate environmental activist. Unable to reconcile herself to Julie’s radical worldview, Annie struggles desperately to keep Peter from falling further into the young woman’s dangerous world. Now, alone on a vast stretch of water, Annie Iversen recounts the strange chain of events that left her stranded in her son’s old kayak. Climate change, S’mores, SUVs, and Noah’s Ark are all onstage as Annie sets out to save her son, and unwittingly throws herself into the path of events larger than she ever could have imagined.
THIS PERFORMANCE WILL BE ON THE MAINSTAGE OF THE S&S THEATRE.
For Scoundrels Ages 15+
REGRETFULLY, SO THE BIRDS ARE
BY JULIA IZUMI
SATURDAY, JANUARY 18TH
DIRECTED BY MATT DENNEY
Arson. Affairs. Incest. Murder... are only the beginning of the Whistler siblings’ problems. Mora’s gotta find her birth mother, Neel’s gotta find himself, and Illy’s gotta keep her piece of the sky... but the birds have other plans. Julia Izumi’s Regretfully, So the Birds Are is a madcap comedy that gleefully flips the human quest for self-discovery on its head.
THIS PERFORMANCE WILL BE ON THE MAINSTAGE OF THE S&S THEATRE.
For Scoundrels Ages 18+
THE APIARY
BY KATE DOUGLAS
SATURDAY, APRIL 26
DIRECTED BY ELIZABETH FALCÓN
Twenty-two years in the future honeybees are nearly extinct except for those kept alive inside of labs. Zora is overqualified for her new lab job, but she loves bees—or what is left of them. When an unfortunate incident leads to a boost in the bees’ numbers, Zora and her coworker Pilar have to decide just how far they’re willing to go to keep the population growing.
THIS STAGED READING WILL BE ON THE MAINSTAGE OF THE S&S THEATRE.
For Scoundrels Ages 18+