Does gender affect the way we view teacher-student relationships? Playwright Donna Hoke poses this question and many more in TEACH, a gender fluid story of questionable tension-building moments set in a modern-day high school. Curious minds can join Wordsmyth Theater Company for a reading of the play that promises to unpack issues of gender politics, bullying, favoritism, and student-teacher flirtation.This event will take place April 9, 2018 at Main Street Theater, 2540 Times Blvd and admission is FREE.

“Teach is an utterly fascinating and fresh take on teacher-student sexual harassment and power dynamics in the classroom and the world of academia. Hoke kept me on the edge of my seat throughout the play and I found my opinion on the characters and situation shifting again and again. The gender fluid construct of the play is a stroke of genius and something I’m now dying to see on stage.”

Monday, April 9, 2018, 7 pm

FREE!

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Valentine’s Day, 2018, the 18th school shooting of the year occurred. Wordsmyth’s next reading, The Secretary, by Kyle John Schmidt, is a dark comedy exploring the almost banality we have come to consider such events.

When third world and first world sleep on the same riverbed, the dreams of its people cross. Magdalena crosses from one to the other, hoping to start a new life.  But her past from the old catches up with her.

Wordsmyth turned 10 years old this summer! So we are celebrating.  We are producing readings of sections of works in progress or short works by the Houston playwrights we have featured including Warren Holleman, Patricia Barry Rumble, William Duell, Arthur Jolly, Abby Koenig, James Joseph Barnes, Eric James, Elizabeth Earle, Asher Wyndham and Ted Swindley.

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College is a complex system, a microcosm of society as a whole and at this college. A single email invites challenging and unpredictable discussions of gender, xenophobia, free speech and identity.

Four teenage girls are tasked with the duty to taste Hitler’s every meal for poison.It is supposed to be the highest honor, or so they are told. How can these young women handle such an honor?

Four teenage girls are tasked with the duty to taste Hitler’s every meal for poison.It is supposed to be the highest honor, or so they are told. How can these young women handle such an honor?

Sometimes family becomes a dogfight. In their ancestral house in rural California, surrounded by a dead walnut orchard, brothers Boomer and Dirt struggle with each other, with themselves, and with their dog-breeding business. As their pregnant pooch swells, they seem on the way to strike it rich. Their dreams are disrupted when Boomer brings home Marisol, who should be a one-night stand, and Dirt finds a boy who will never grow up.