Redtwist's Twisted PlayFest provides ongoing play readings and development for aspiring Chicago Playwrights. The festival features ten plays at various stages of development. Redtwist will support festival playwrights throughout the year with additional readings and workshops. Keep reading to learn about each new work and the creatives around it.

Headliner:

Deserted, by Melanie Coffey (Please purchase tickets here.)

Staged Readings:

Short Changed, by Jordan Gleaves

Top Girl, by Evalena Lakin

Timmy, by Megan Rivkin

Stand Readings:

The Pardoned, by Paula Kamen

Pvt. Molly, by Jillian Leff

Fringe Sects, by Jared Rubin Sprowls

Scorpio, by alfonso solomon kahlil

Gnawbone, by Connor Emir Bradshaw

Re:Writing, by Caitlin Frazier

Jodie and Emma don't want to live in the city any more, with dreams of a new life, a will to work hard, and a generous grant, they set out into a desertified landscape. They nurture their garden in a dying world, but between a scorching climate and a very hungry neighbor, farming provides more challenges than anticipated. The couple struggles to plant their own roots and comes to realize growing on dead land may be a bigger challenge than expected. Will a dying earth leave them deserted? 

Redtwist's mission with the One-On-Wednesday series is programming unique, boundary-pushing, and highly theatrical solo work. The Solo Incubator Festival is a developmental festival which showcases artists-in-process as they develop their storytelling and expand on the theatrical and technical elements of their original shows. Our goal is to connect solo creators in varying stages of experience with others in the community, and help expand the breadth and depth of solo work for Redtwist to produce in future One-On-Wednesday slots

The Metal Shop Performance Lab and JunkHeart present:

ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE
​by Alice Birch
​directed by Alex Mallory

www.themetalshop.org/junkheart for more information

Anatomy of a Suicide follows three generations of women fighting against the current of mental illness and inter-generational trauma across three simultaneous timelines.

Featuring an ensemble of ten actors playing 26 characters, Alice Birch’s Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning play draws the audience into a whirlpool of past, present, and future, and the vestiges they leave behind.

This production is independently funded by the producers and generous individual donors. All donations go directly to paying artists. If you would like to support our work, click here to make a tax-deductible donation to the production through The Metal Shop's fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas.