The Hon. Jack Snelling Minister for the Arts
Martin Haese Lord Mayor
Douglas Gautier
CEO & Artistic Director Adelaide Festival Centre
Welcome to the 8th National Play Festival held for the first time in South Australia. The SA Government has been a long-standing supporter of Playwriting Australia and the work it does in supporting the development of new plays and playwrights, especially South Australian writers. So I am delighted that we are also supporting the Festival’s presence in Adelaide this year and looking forward to seeing the work of a number of our
own writers showcased at this event.
Welcome to the 2015 National Play Festival. Theatre is integral to the City of Adelaide’s cultural landscape. Our city is renowned across Australia and the world for our arts festivals, which are outstanding in their volume, variety, and ability to attract the most talented performers and artists.
in the spheres of business and tourism, but because of their unique contribution to Adelaide’s character. I hope that this year’s National Play Festival can shed light on the newest ideas, and most importantly, challenge the way we view the world.
I am proud to live and work as Lord Mayor in a city where such attention is given to the arts, not least because of the associated benefit it brings to our city
Adelaide Festival Centre is proud to be partnering with Playwriting Australia, the State Theatre Company of South Australia, Flinders University and Adelaide Festival to present the National Play Festival in 2015. In a coup for South Australia, this is the first time this prestigious event will be hosted in Adelaide. Adelaide Festival Centre means many things to our many different patrons, but over
Whether you are a local theatre worker or lover, or have travelled from other places, I hope this year’s Festival provides you with many highlights as well as the time and space to have the conversations and debates about issues that matter to you and the future of theatre in Australia.
For these reasons Adelaide City Council is proud to support the National Play Festival, and I thank Playwriting Australia for bringing this event to our city. Have a fantastic festival!
the recent years it has meant greater diversity of attractions to an ever widening audience base. The National Play Festival is a highlight of the national Australian theatre calendar, and the 2015 Festival is a unique opportunity for South Australian audiences to experience new and contemporary theatre by some of Australia and South Australia’s leading playwrights. We look forward to celebrating the very best new Australian theatre.
Geordie Brookman
Artistic Director State Theatre Company of SA
Professor Diana Glenn Dean of the School of Humanities and Creative Arts Flinders University
State Theatre Company of South Australia is delighted to partner with Playwriting Australia in bringing the National Play Festival to Adelaide in 2015. New writing is one of the central focuses of our work, it is both the life source and engine room of what we do. We believe it is vital that our playwrights are supported throughout the creative process and the
National Play Festival provides not just the opportunity for public exposure and promotion of new work but the environment in which critical dramaturgical leaps can be made. It’s our pleasure to welcome our colleagues from around the country to Adelaide for two weeks of hard work, dreaming and celebration.
With its experientially alluring promise of ‘theatre up close’, Playwriting Australia’s National Play Festival will be a gloriously rich addition to Adelaide’s 2015 creative arts calendar. Unlocking the creative imagination through its dynamic array of collaborative and discursive activity, workshops, readings, public events, and engagement with script- and theatremaking practice, the festival will offer fresh insights for both emerging and established artists and practitioners.
Flinders University is extremely proud to be a sponsor of the Play Festival. Our University has a wellestablished reputation in the creative arts, and the strength of our programs and repertoire over many years has secured our national and international profile. Our award-winning theatre and film directors, playwrights and practitioners are testimony to the sustained artistic and creative excellence of our vibrant creative arts community at Flinders. I extend my warmest good wishes for a successful festival in 2015.
Playwriting Australia acknowledges the traditional country of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and pays respect to Elders past and present. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land.
WELCOME Welcome to the 2015 National Play Festival, a celebration of the extraordinary worlds playwrights invent and the people who inhabit them, on and off the stage. If you’ve never been to the Play Festival before, you can expect four sumptuous days of play readings, discussions, panels, and speakers, all sharing wisdom, provocations, mischief and delight. I’m not sure I’ve ever known how to understand the world by myself. I don’t know what makes us compassionate, hateful, loving or hilarious. I don’t know how we make impossible decisions or why we decide to choose a over b. Like most people, I need guidance. For matters of facts I have books, the internet, authorities. But for matters of the soul and of the heart, I turn to the artists. To the distillers of the human condition, the imaginers, the detonators and the sages. To the playwrights. This year’s Play Festival is overflowing with their imaginative generosity. There are five plays in the main program, and they’re bursting with ideas, humour, heart and insight. Let us take you on a whirlwind tour of a body double’s movie lifestyle, an epic media empire, a magical mountain escape, a multinational rice conglomerate, and the most intriguing corners of the internet. And that’s just the start.
This year’s keynote address comes from none other than Joanna Murray-Smith, a genuine legend of Australian Theatre. We’ll also get stuck in to the life and work of the Play Festival playwrights and unpick the thorniness of writing new plays in Adelaide with some of SA’s biggest artistic brains. Add in a play reading about a video arcade champion in the ‘80s and four of Adelaide’s brightest new writing stars. If you’ve always wanted to have a go at writing a play but didn’t know where to start, come along to Playwriting 101 and learn the ropes. It’s open to everyone. And, if by some miracle you’ve still got room for more, join us for a special late night indulgence as we present a series of love letters to our leading playwrights. It’s particularly exciting for Playwriting Australia to be in Adelaide for the first time, and thrilling that so many of Adelaide’s leading actors and directors will be giving life to these magnificent plays. Of the 11 playwrights in the program, five are from South Australia. This is a Play Festival about reaching further, demanding more; about asking bigger questions and inciting wonder. It’s a rich concoction and I hope you enjoy it. Tim Roseman Artistic Director Playwriting Australia
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
JOANNA MURRAY-SMITH
Joanna Murray-Smith is one of Australia’s leading and most-loved playwrights. Her work has been performed in every major theatre in Australia and over 35 countries. Her searing humour, biting insight and vociferous compassion ensure she remains one of the most significant voices on the Australian stage.
WHEN
Wednesday 22 July, 6.30pm
Single Ticket
Full $20 Concessions $15-12.50 (+booking fees)
In her National Play Festival keynote address, Joanna reveals the sometimes brutally acquired wisdom she has gathered over a 30-year far-flung life as a playwright.
Joanna Murray-Smith’s plays include Honour; Rapture; Nightfall; Love Child; Songs For Nobodies; Redemption; Rockabye; The Female of the Species; Ninety; The Gift; Day One, A Hotel, Evening; Bombshells; Fury; Pennsylvania Avenue; Switzerland and the adaptation of Scenes From a Marriage for Sir Trevor Nunn. Many have been performed around the world and have been translated into dozens of languages. Several of her plays have appeared on Broadway, at the Royal National Theatre and in the West End, including Honour, The Female of the Species (nominated for an Olivier Award) and Bombshells. U.S. Variety described her as “Australia’s foremost female playwright.” Joanna has written three novels, Truce, Judgement Rock and Sunnyside, all published by Penguin/Viking, two opera librettos and a number of screenplays. Photo Credit: Grant Sparkes-Carroll
KEITH by
BEN ELLIS
“I’m still David. Right? Who’s the new Goliath?” It’s the 1950s and Malcolm Keith, the heir to an Australian newspaper empire, plans to make the most of it. But nothing goes to plan. The ghost of his father haunts the presses, he’s continuously visited by a well-known revolutionary figure who turns out to be a hallucination and his mother flogs everything off but the Adelaide paper… and that’s just the ‘50s. Keith is an epic play spanning sixty years in three particular moments. A play about a man who has to sacrifice everything… but can he sacrifice the one thing he truly loves?
DIRECTOR Dramaturg CAST
Iain Sinclair Verity Laughton Kristy Best Eugenia Fragos Antoine Jelk Charles Mayer Rhys McConnochie Meredith Penman Christopher Pitman Brad Williams
Performances
Wednesday 22 July, 2pm Friday 24 July, 8.15pm
Single Ticket
Full $20 Concessions $15-12.50 (+booking fees)
Ben Ellis’s plays include The Armour, Story of the Red Mountains, Falling Petals and These People. His writing for Headlong’s Decade project in London was singled out by The Wall Street Journal as a standout piece. Other theatre works include The Final Shot, Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover and 360 Positions in a One Night Stand. Keith is a new play commissioned by State Theatre Company SA and Headlong Theatre (UK) and is presented in partnership with State Theatre Company SA
DELUGE
by
PHILLIP KAVANAGH
“We were ripped apart because we were getting close.” Our brains are changing because of the media we use. We all live in The Shallows now. The trouble is human desire runs fathoms deep. In this frantic world of rapidly rising information, our minds are reshaping, our souls are transforming and the dam has burst. Five plays run simultaneously as ten characters attempt to find meaning and connection without drowning in the flood. An unexpected pregnancy. A prophetic speech. A dark secret. A high-stakes game. A life derailed. Now that the deluge is upon us do we swim to each other or get swept apart in the torrents?
DIRECTOR Dramaturg CAST
Nescha Jelk Iain Sinclair Matilda Bailey Jesse Butler Stuart Fong Antoine Jelk Lucy Lehmann Rebecca Mayo Carmen Nixon Andrew Thomas Sara West Alex Woollatt
Performances
Wednesday 22 July, 8.15pm Saturday 25 July, 2.30pm
Single Ticket
Full $20 Concessions $15-12.50 (+booking fees)
Phillip Kavanagh is a playwright and dramaturg based between Adelaide and Sydney. He has been awarded the Patrick White Playwrights’ Award, STCSA Flinders University Young Playwrights Award, Colin Thiele Creative Writing Scholarship, and Jill Blewett Playwright’s Award. Other works include Jesikah (STCSA) and Ecobots (Buzz Dance Theatre). Deluge is presented with the support of Adelaide Festival and Flinders University
RICE
by
MICHELE LEE
“I was crawling in paddies before you were born. I was managing five hundred acre farms before you were a kid. These things happen by design, not by accident.” In a city skyrise a young Executive Officer for Australia’s biggest rice company is close to sealing a secret contract with the Indian government. Her company, Golden Fields, stands to take over India’s entire rice distribution system. At the other end of the building an elderly woman works as a humble cleaner. When they meet, the lives of these two Australians one second generation Indian and the other first generation Chinese - entangle in complex and revealing ways.
DIRECTOR Dramaturg CAST
Tanya Dickson Jane Bodie Kristy Best Meme Thorne
Performances
Thursday 23 July, 2pm Saturday 25 July, 4.30pm
Single Ticket
Full $20 Concessions $15-12.50 (+booking fees)
Rice is an intricate and intimate exploration of a multinational exposé.
Michele works across stage and audio. She is making The Naked Self for Arts House’s FOLA 2016 and is writing a new play Going Down with Malthouse Theatre (Malcolm Robertson commission). She wrote Rice in 2014 with Australia Council support and workshopped it recently with The Street Theatre, Canberra.
THE SILVER ALPS by
MAXINE MELLOR
“Go everywhere without moving… you can pretend it’s Switzerland.” Heidi and her daughter are being evicted. Her brother comes to the rescue, driving them to a cabin in the mountains to start afresh. From one identical motel to another only the scenery changes as we re-chart the Great Australian Divide. But what are the real reasons for their trip and will anyone take the driver’s seat? A play of mystical mountains and itchy motel rooms, charged with sexuality and secrets, The Silver Alps rips the hood off the family car and pulls unknown things from under the beds.
Winner of the Max Afford Playwrights Award (The Silver Alps, 2014), the QLD Premier’s Drama Award (2012/2013), and Inscription’s Edward Albee NYC Residency (2012), Maxine’s latest Queensland productions include adaptations of The Wind in the Willows (La Boite) and The Wizard of Oz (Danger Ensemble, Brisbane Festival & La Boite), and Trollop (QTC).
DIRECTOR Dramaturg CAST
Tim Roseman Jane Bodie Matilda Bailey Andrew Thomas Meme Thorne Sara West
Performances
Thursday 23 July, 8.15pm Saturday 25 July, 12pm
Single Ticket
Full $20 Concessions $15-12.50 (+booking fees)
LAKE DISAPPOINTMENT by LUKE MULLINS &
LACHLAN PHILPOTT
“Kane and me were both rising stars... But we clicked. The director said so. Everyone said so. And it’s there on screen.” The film is called Lake Disappointment. The same as the town. Kane is one of the world’s biggest movie stars. And his body double is every bit as important, sharing more than just looks with his famous counterpart. But just how intertwined are their lives? Inspired by true accounts of body doubles, life meets art meets life in Luke Mullins and Lachlan Philpott’s mesmerising, curious, meticulous and unnerving riff on identity, personality… and show business.
DIRECTOR CAST
Janice Muller Luke Mullins
Performances
Friday 24 July, 2pm Saturday 25 July, 7.30pm
Single Ticket
Full $20 Concessions $15-12.50 (+booking fees)
Luke has performed for Australia’s major professional theatre companies, as well as collaborating on new work in the independent sector. His acclaimed portrayal of Lucky in Waiting for Godot (Sydney Theatre Company) saw Luke awarded both the Helpmann Award, and the Sydney Theatre Award. That production recently played at the Samuel Beckett Festival (Barbican Theatre) in London.
Lachlan is a Sydney-based playwright and dog person. His plays have been produced in several countries and include Bison, Bustown, Catapult, Colder, Lake Disappointment, M.ROCK, Silent Disco, The Chosen, Truck Stop, The Trouble with Harry. Lachlan is currently developing work with the American Conservatory Theatre, Crowded Fire Theatre California and The Traverse Edinburgh. Originally commissioned and developed through Bell Shakespeare’s Mind’s Eye program. Bell Shakespeare is delighted to support the reading of Lake Disappointment as part of the National Play Festival 2015.
ASTROMAN by
ALBERT BELZ
“You gotta look for the patterns. Every game has a pattern and as soon as you realise it, then you’ll master it.” Geelong, 1983 - Jiembra Djalu, troubled boy genius, has high-scored on all the games at the local arcade. He knows the moves, he’s mastered the techniques and he’s memorised the patterns. But now his own genius threatens to take him away from the people he loves to another galaxy... Melbourne. With the help of the elderly Greek owner of the ‘Astrocade’, Jiembra realises that to defeat the game he has to change the game, and now it’s all on. It’s the ‘80s, there’s a tournament. No-one can afford to be passive. It’s on… it’s on like Donkey Kong!
Award-winning international playwright Albert Belz has written for theatre, television, film and radio for over a decade. His works have been performed in France, England, New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific. His theatre credits include Awhi Tapu, Yours Truly, Raising the Titanics and Te Awarua.
DIRECTOR CAST
Isaac Drandic Jesse Butler Eugenia Fragos Carissa Lee Rhys McConnochie Hunter Page-Lochard Natasha Wanganeen Taylor Wiese
Performances
Friday 24 July, 6pm
Single Ticket
Full $20 Concessions $15-12.50 (+booking fees)
HOMEGROWN A unique showcase of the most exciting new talent in South Australia, HOMEGROWN is an unmissable chance to see the playwriting stars of tomorrow today. Selected from a wide range of the very best emerging writers in the state, the National Play Festival presents excerpts of new plays by Ben Brooker, Elena Carapetis, Sophia Simmons and Emily Steel.
DIRECTOR Dramaturg CAST
Jon Halpin Nicki Bloom Lizzy Falkland Dale March Annabel Matheson Rory Walker
Performances
Thursday 23 July, 6pm
Single Ticket
Full $20 Concessions $15-12.50 (+booking fees)
Ben Brooker is a writer, editor, critic, essayist and playwright. He is a graduate of Flinders University (BA Hons) and is the author of many published short stories, poems, reviews and essays. In 2013 his first full-length play, The Lake, was produced by award-winning independent theatre company five.point.one in Adelaide.
Elena Carapetis’ debut play The Good Son enjoyed a sell out season in Adelaide this year while Helen Back was shortlisted for the Jill Blewett Playwright’s Award. Gorgon is her first professional commission. As an actor, Elena appeared most recently in STCSA’s production of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll as Olive.
Sophia Simmons is an Adelaide based emerging playwright and actor, and current graduating acting student of Adelaide College of the Arts. She was the winner of the 2013 Flinders University Young Playwright Award for her play Brightness, and was part of the Australian Theatre for Young People’s 2014 Fresh Ink playwright mentorship program.
Emily Steel is originally from Wales and now lives in Adelaide. Her work in Australia includes: Sepia (Adelaide Fringe 2012, Melbourne Fringe 2012), Rocket Town (Adelaide Fringe 2011), and Man in a Bag (Holden Street). She is currently working on projects for State Theatre SA, inSPACE and BBC Radio 4.
LATE NIGHT LOVE LETTERS Ever wondered what playwrights love about other playwrights? We asked a selection of Australia’s leading lights to drop a quick letter of admiration to another playwright (living or otherwise, Aussie or otherwise). With the help of our talented Play Festival actors, we present the crème de la crème of those love letters over an imperial pint or two*. Come to our place for this late night special, light a candle, dip a strawberry in chocolate and lose yourself in liquid love as our leading dramatists write each other up and then down and then up again. We’ll even play some Barry White.
WHEN
Thursday 23 July 10pm until late Free (no booking)
VENUE
Bibliotheca Bar & Book Exchange 1/27 Gresham St Adelaide SA 5000
* Festival Pass holders receive 20% discount on all house wines and beers.
Free Artist Talks Meet the Festival Playwrights Seven of Australia’s hottest playwrights make up the program for this year’s National Play Festival. Hear them in conversation as they discuss their plays, the ways they work, the ways they avoid working and the terror and delight of writing for the stage.
PANEL HOST
Albert Belz Ben Ellis Phillip Kavanagh Michele Lee Maxine Mellor Luke Mullins Lachlan Philpott Tim Roseman
WHEN Thursday 23 July, 4.30pm Free (no booking required)
Adelaide: The Long Game Adelaide is renowned globally for punching above its weight artistically. But what makes it so vibrant, and why? And where does writing plays fit into it? What are the stories that Adelaide tells well, and what are the stories we need to tell better? A panel of Adelaide’s leading theatremakers and critics explore the lasting legacies of Adelaide’s visionaries and asks: where next?
Workshop for Beginners
PANEL HOST
Andrew Bovell Elena Carapetis Rosalba Clemente Jane Howard Rob Brookman
WHEN
Friday 24 July, 4pm Free (no booking required)
Playwriting 101
Have you ever wanted to write a play? Now’s your chance. Working with two of Playwriting Australia’s core artists, we take you on a whirlwind ride through the ins and outs, do’s and don’ts of writing for the stage. Bring your pencil. (Or a laptop.)
PLAYWRIGHTS’ PROGRAM Our dedicated program of skills and craft development, exclusively for playwrights. Places are strictly limited and must be booked in advance at www.pwa.org.au/playwrightsprogram2015
Playwriting Masterclasses Andrew Bovell and Leah Purcell, two of Australia’s most-loved and celebrated playwrights, will each teach a masterclass for writers sharing their wisdom, insight and expertise.
ANDREW BOVELL WHEN COST VENUE
Friday 24 July 10am – 12.30pm $35 Lyrics Room Adelaide Festival Centre
Leah Purcell
This masterclass is exclusively reserved for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island writers. Presented in partnership with SA Writers Centre. WHEN COST VENUE
Monday 20 July 6pm – 9pm Free (booking essential) State Theatre Company of SA Railway Station (opposite Adelaide Festival Centre)
A multi-skilled, multi-layered masterclass in the craft of writing plays for young audiences, presented by some of Australia’s leading artists in the field. Playwrights and other theatre-makers explore and explain their craft, ambitions and ideology the why, how and when - of the work they create for young people.
PRESENTERS
Albert Belz (Playwright) Jane Bodie (Playwright) Jenni Medway (Writing Coordinator, Australian Theatre for Young People) Rosemary Myers (Artistic Director, Windmill Theatre) Lachlan Philpott (Playwright)
WHEN COST VENUE
Saturday 25 July 10am – 12.30pm Free (booking essential) Lyrics Room Adelaide Festival Centre
Presented by Playwriting Australia’s Resident Dramaturg, Iain Sinclair and Diversity Programs Coordinator, Teik-Kim Pok.
WHEN COST VENUE
Saturday 25 July 10am – 1pm Free (booking essential) John Bishop Room Adelaide Festival Centre
Play:Relay
PLAYWRITING AUSTRALIA Playwriting Australia is the only national organisation that seeks, develops and champions new Australian stories for the stage. We exist to: • Ensure there are more astonishing new plays on the Australian stage • Make certain that those plays are as extraordinary as possible; and • Ensure that the range of writers creating these plays is as wide as imaginable, reflecting the Australia we live in. We are the only organisation working with playwrights and theatre artists from all backgrounds and at all levels of their careers. We actively seek out unrepresented voices, especially Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse artists, to address the imbalance in the Australian theatre. We connect talent with opportunity to extend the art of playwriting and advocate for positive change on behalf of artists, industry and audiences. We offer playwrights, or those who want to start writing plays, investment in the creative development of their new work giving them the time, space and opportunities to write and develop their skills and craft. For theatre companies and producers we help find and commission playwrights, support the creative development of new plays, and we assist in selecting the right artist to better develop a new project.
Support Us It is only with the generous support of donors that we can: • Seek unparalleled talent and connect it with opportunity • Unearth new voices • Commit space, time and support for the expression of ideas, creation and craft. • Create a legacy of extraordinary Australian stories
If you believe in a playwriting culture that reflects the Australia we live in; where a wealth of new stories are produced each year and a diverse range of voices are heard, and; If you consider Australian playwrights amongst the world’s brightest visionaries, then we ask you to make a tax-deductible donation to Playwriting Australia and join us for the ride.
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To learn more, please contact our Philanthropy Manager, Amelia Morgan-Hunn P. 02 8274 0902 E. amelia@ pwa.org.au
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PRINCIPAL SPONSORS
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FESTIVAL VENUE
TICKETS PLAY FESTIVAL PASS* Full Concession**
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Single Session Ticket Full Concession** + AFC Season 2015
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Playwrights’ Program Lyrics Room & John Bishop Room Adelaide Festival Centre
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Playwrights’ Program
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cREDITS The National Play Festival is presented each year by Playwriting Australia, the national script development body working with playwrights and the theatre industry to see more, high quality Australian plays on our stages.
National Play Festival ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Tim Roseman Resident Dramaturg Iain Sinclair Affiliate Artist Isaac Drandic General Manager Atul Joshi Associate Producer Alice Poujois-Enari Diversity Programs Coordinator Teik-Kim Pok Philanthropy Manager Amelia Morgan-Hunn Administration OfficeR Felicity Pickering Playwriting Australia Board Peter Wilson (Chair) Andrew Bovell Tom Gutteridge Julian Leeser Matthew McCarron Joanna Murray-Smith Leah Purcell Desmond Sweeney Deanne Weir Playwriting Australia Visionaries (Donors over $2000) Andrew Bovell I Kallinikos Maureen Ritchie Deanne Weir David Williamson AO Peter Wilson
Festival Programming Committee Angela Betzien Nicki Bloom Geordie Brookman Production Manager Peter Kelly Festival Interns Chris Bond Sarah Dunn Chloe Eckert Casey Kendall Shannon Mackowski Nadia Samson Graphic Design Coalition of Mischief Illustration Chris Edser
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WEDNESday 22 JuLY
2PM
6.30PM
KEITH Keynote Address
FESTIVAL PLANNER 8.15PM
DELUGE
THURSday 23 JuLY 2PM
4.30PM
RICE
6PM
8.15PM
10PM
6PM
8.15PM
MEET THE FESTIVAL HOMEGROWN THE SILVER ALPS LATE NIGHT PLAYWRIGHTS LOVE LETTERS
FRIDay 24 JuLY 10AM
PLAYWRIGHTS’ PROGRAM
2PM
LAKE DISAPPOINTMENT
4PM
Adelaide: THE LONG GAME
ASTROMAN KEITH
2.30PM
4.30PM
SATURday 25 JuLY 10AM
12PM
PLAYWRIGHTS’ THE SILVER ALPS DELUGE RICE PROGRAM & PLAYWRITING 101
7.30PM
LAKE DISAPPOINTMENT
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