Edith Reading Tomorrow at Ignition 2010

As mentioned previously, Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them is part of Victory Gardens’ 2010 Ignition Festival this year (yahoo!). Our reading is tomorrow night, Saturday, August 21st at 7:30 PM. Come join us! And bring your friends! And their friends! And their loose acquaintances! Maybe even their enemies, if you like!

Saturday August 21, 7:30pm
A Reading of Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them by A. Rey Pamatmat

Directed by Lisa Peterson

Starring Christine Bunuan, Kroydell Galima, and Alex Weisman

Three kids are all but abandoned on a farm in remotest Middle America. But when Edith shoots something she really shouldn’t shoot, the formerly indifferent outside world comes barging in — whether they want it to or not.

Ignition Press

An article in the Chicago Sun-Times was printed yesterday about the week ahead! Check it out by clicking below:

Victory Gardens Theater turns key on second Ignition Festival, Chicago Sun-Times, (Friday, August 13, 2010)

I’ve never been quoted before! That’s pretty neat. But also kind of interesting. While, yes, I was talking about new audiences, I was also largely talking about peers at that point in the interview — meeting the other participating writers, theater folks in a different city, and so on. So it’s not exactly a misrepresentation of what I said, but it is skewed more towards me sounding like, “Hey, Chicago! Look at my play!” Not that that’s a bad thing because I would like to say:

“Hey, Chicago! Look at my play!”

Here are a few other links to some other press from when the Festival was announced. These just reprint the press release, though, for the most part.

Six New Plays Picked for Victory Gardens Ignition Festival, Playbill, (August 10, 2010)

Victory Gardens Presents 2010 Ignition Festival, 8/18 – 22, Broadway World, (August 4, 2010)

Victory Gardens’ 2010 Ignition Festival

In five days, I’m off to Chicago to start rehearsals for my play Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them, which will be read as part of the 2010 Ignition Festival on Saturday, August 21st @ 7:30 PM. Lisa Peterson is directing. A list of all of the festival plays is below (click to make it bigger).

As you can see, there will be a scene sampler on the first night of the Festival (Wednesday) to help you figure out what plays are up your alley. I will be at both the sampler and my reading (and most of the others), so I hope to see you there. Feel free to say hi!