This will be an extra-credit project:
Opening Night on Saturday Afternoon
Monthly staged readings of original plays from our Playwrights Workshop
followed by a discussion with the author.
One Saturday a month at 3pm
Admission Free
September 19:
Going to the Chapel
Two one-act comedies
By Michael Z Murphy
The Theater Project, Union County College’s Professional Theater Company, will present a staged reading of "Going to the Chapel" by Michael Z Murphy, directed by Louis Scarpati, on Saturday, September 19 at 3 PM. The presentation will be followed by a discussion with the playwright, director, actors and audience in the Union County College Students Commons,1033 Springfield Avenue, Cranford, NJ. Admission is free.
This reading is part of the Opening Night in the Afternoon series of original plays by members of The Theater Project’s Playwrights Development Workshop, led by Artistic Director Mark Spina. These script-in-hand performances offer the excitement and immediacy of actually sitting in on rehearsals with talented members of The Theater Project. The series continues on October 17.
Going to the Chapel consists of two one-act comedies of manners. Act I is called "All in Good Time" and Act II is "Remote Control." The plays pose the question: To marry or not and if so, how? The characters have multiple considerations, and of course, life intervenes. One British cleric must decide and one dead Jewish mama must manipulate her children. Crossed wires, crossing over and cross spirits --- two comedies of manners.
Michael Z Murphy (please note there is NO PERIOD after the Z), communication professor, poet, certified massage therapist, life member of the International Listening Association and someone who has lived a televisionless life for almost 23 years brings a unique, albeit whacked, angle to relationships. This Hillside resident's past life includes teaching speech and/or English in every grade from 6 to 12, selling hardware as well as stints as an industrial painter, movie usher, stage actor, stage manager and director. His favorite activity is cracking student brains with critical thinking. He once played in an African drum ensemble with Celeste Holm---Oh, yes he did!
