The University at Albany Department of Theatre is pleased to present Plays in Process, a series offered each season which features readings of original works by student playwrights. This year’s readings will take place in the Studio Theatre at the University at Albany Performing Arts Center on the uptown campus on Friday and Saturday, February 8 & 9, 2008 at 7:30pm. Both evenings will feature the same two works and will end with an audience talk back with the director and playwrights.

The offerings include Sun Poisoning by Maggie Johnson. Set in the basement of a southern farm house, the work is a wistful and poetic account of Rosemary who, beseeched by ghostly visitations from her past, must face her blinding grief from a mysterious accident. The second entry is Joe McComb’s The Problem with Bobby whose main character is deeply addicted. When his brother comes home on leave from Iraq, the family concocts a radical plan to try to reach him before it’s too late.

About the series, literary advisor James Farrell says, “Plays in Process is a reflection of the University at Albany Theatre Department's ongoing commitment to nurture and encourage student playwriting by providing the student playwrights the opportunity to develop their plays with actors, directors and audiences.“

The readings will be directed by adjunct faculty member David Lane who says, “By putting these plays up in front of an audience, the playwrights can hear for themselves what’s working and what’s not. When it’s up on its feet and being performed by actors is when the work really starts to spark — characters come alive, situations gain palpable drama . . . the playwrights get a better sense of how the mechanics of their plays are working and get a better sense of what an audience will respond to.”

Admission to the readings is $2. For further information, contact the Box Office at (518) 442-3997 or visit the Performing Arts Center website at www.albany.edu/pac.

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