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The Other Place by Sharr White on April 2, 2016 - featuring Matthew Davis, Anthony Mowad Jeanine Henry and Sarah Roberts. Moderated by Terrence Girard and Hosted by Peg Girard.

The Other Place by Sharr White on April 2, 2016 - featuring Matthew Davis, Anthony Mowad Jeanine Henry and Sarah Roberts. Moderated by Terrence Girard and Hosted by Peg Girard.

OUR NEXT PLAYREAD :

SATURDAY, april 2, 2022, 2PM EST

The babylon line BY RICHARD GREENBERG

The next new play reading at MCT will be THE BABYLON LINE by Richard Greenberg. The cast for this reading is: Anthony DeTrano, Bobbie Letmon, Nancy Matican-Bock, Liz Keimer, Tina Coppock, Dana Blanchard, & Chris Fallows.

THE STORY: Levittown, 1967. It’s the first night of an adult-ed creative writing course in a classroom at the local high school. The teacher, Aaron Port, lives in Greenwich Village and reverse commutes once a week on the Long Island Railroad’s Babylon Line. His students are a mixed bag: Frieda Cohen, Anna Cantor, and Midge Braverman, housewives all, embrace each other on arrival and update their running checklists on each other’s kids, husbands, and lawns. Their opening gambit is to tell Aaron in no uncertain terms that they are only there because French Cooking and Flower Arranging are full. The two men in the class, Jack Hassenpflug and Marc Adams, sit silently at their desks. One final student, Joan Dellamond, rushes in late, but she actually does intend to be there. An aspiring writer, troubled by a failing marriage, Joan has little in common with her neighbors, and yet, she does seek connection. Maybe this class will bring her, and Aaron, something that neither quite expects….

“…wholly enjoyable…an unpretentious but thought-provoking play”—Variety

“…The Babylon Line is by Richard Greenberg: barbed repartee, shiny epigrams, and baroque arias of loss and longing all come with the territory…when Greenberg’s creations babble on, you can’t help but lean in.”—Time Out NY

Tickets are $10, and will be available beginning Tuesday, March 22 at 11am by visiting mymct.org or calling the Box Office at (321) 723-6935.