Postponed: Women Playwrights Series: Beatrice’s Couch by Yasmine Beverly Rana– Friday, January 20, 2022 7:00 pm

This reading has been postponed. Please check back for a rescheduled date. On the first night of Rosh Hashanah, Beatrice Larson, a 70-year-old New Yorker and Rita Shah, a 23-year-old actress, spend their first evening together in Beatrice’s Upper East Side apartment musing race, religion, relationships, loss, and solitude.  Rita dreams of performing on stage, a challenge for a South Asian woman in 1995 facing casting discrimination while Beatrice mourns the loss of the family she once had. Through heartache, joy, and Cole Porter, Beatrice and Rita develop an unlikely friendship over the next ten years with the two women reuniting on Rosh Hashanah.
 

A Concert Reading of a New Play by Yasmine Beverly Rana
Directed by John Pietrowski

Friday, January 20 2023
7 pm

Recommended donation: $10

Tickets available at TicketLeap.com

Yasmine Beverly Rana’s latest play, After Rome was produced at the Khan Theatre in Jerusalem (2022). This year, she was the cover story of 201 Magazine’s The Arts Issue. Plays have been developed and presented at theaters including Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Writers Theatre of New Jersey, La MaMa Experimental Theatre, Tara Arts of London, among others. Fellowships and grants include a NJ State Council on the Arts TRANSITional Art Project, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Award in Playwriting, and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship. The War Zone is My Bed was a Francesca Primus Prize finalist. Publications include The Pirandello Society of America Journal,The Alabama Literary Review, Blackbird, The Contemporary European Idea, The Kenyon Review, Lilith, TDR: The Drama Review, and numerous anthologies. The University of Chicago Press and Seagull Books “In Performance Series“ anthologized four of Yasmine’s plays in The War Zone is My Bed and Other Plays.

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