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October reading: The Open Potion, by Elizabeth Keel

October 20, 2024 By Ian Mauzy

The Open Potion, by Elizabeth A.M. Keel
7 PM, Oct. 28th, 2024 - Free Admission
Main Street Theater
2540 Times Blvd, 77005

Wordsmyth Theater Company is proud to present this reading of Elizabeth Keel’s new play The Open Potion!

The Open Potion is an epic, fantasy, coming-of-age story of two siblings — Beryl, a knight, and Rowan an apothecary. They must journey on a quest to save the life of the Countess of Bayong, and learn to navigate rivers and the Sea, and assassins and foes to find a very precious and very rare ingredient.

Admission is free and open to the public.

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April Reading: Planet First, by William Duell

March 27, 2024 By Ian Mauzy

PLANET FIRST, by William Duell April 1, 7 PM Main Street Theater 2540 Times Blvd, 77005 Free Admission

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Reading for May 2022!

May 2, 2022 By Ian Mauzy

Yella Jack, by Donna Latham
Monday, May 9, 7PM
Main Street Theater
2540 Times Blvd, Houston, TX 77005
Free Admission

It’s 1878. Yellow Fever and serial killer Yella Jack ravage the city of Memphis. Can science and faith together conquer these vile, twin plagues? Is there a lesson here for us?

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February 15, 2022 By Ian Mauzy

Our friends at Houston Arts Alliance maintain a Cultural Events Calendar, listing all sorts of things to see in Houston!

https://wordsmyththeater.org/haa-calendar/

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Reading of The Cry of the Reed, by Sinan Ünel!

August 12, 2021 By Ian Mauzy

Reading available August 20-30, talkback on the 30th

Wordsmyth’s bilingual play for the 2020-2021 season!

A journalist and her colleague find themselves unexpectedly “detained” by a band of insurgents as bombs rain down on a war-torn landscape. Her captors offer her one telephone call – a chance to reconnect with the mother she hasn’t spoken to in 10 years, now living in Turkey and preparing for a festival celebrating the great Sufi poet Rumi. Violence, religion, and the beauty of whirling dervishes collide in this powerful portrait of a world at war.

The reading is in Turkish/English with subtitles, and will be available to stream on our Facebook page and YouTube channel from August 20-30! On Monday, August 30, at 7:00 PM Central, we will have a live talkback with the playwright hosted on our Facebook page!

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Reading of The Canterville Ghost, adapted by Elizabeth A.M. Keel

April 30, 2021 By Ian Mauzy

The Canterville Ghost
an adaptation of a short story by Oscar Wilde
adapted by Elizabeth A.M. Keel
A Streamed Reading May 18-24
Directed by Elizabeth Bunch
With a Live Talkback Monday, May 24th at 7pm CDT

Wordsmyth’s 2021 New Play Reading Series begins May 18th on Facebook and YouTube with Elizabeth A.M. Keel’s adaptation of The Canterville Ghost! The reading will be available from May 18-24, with a talkback on Facebook on the evening of the 24th.

In this one-act adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s ebullient short story, the Otis family moves into Canterville Chase. Their effervescent American charm grates on Sir Simon de Canterville, the resident ghost who does his level best to terrify Hiram, Lucretia, and their sons right back out again. But he cannot show quite the same ire towards their daughter Virginia, who might be the very girl prophesied to save his tormented soul.

Wordsmyth Theater Company is funded in part by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.

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