International Playwrights Festival Streaming Friday

TORRINGTON, CT - The Warner Theatre in Torrington will present our 9th Annual International Playwrights Festival – “The Ties That Bind” – from the Nancy Marine Studio Theatre beginning on Friday, November 6, 2020 at 7:00 pm! The first production to be streamed is FINAL REST by Victoria Z. Daly from Connecticut.

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, this will be a virtual event – each production will be recorded in the Nancy Marine Studio Theatre over a period of several weeks and then streamed via YouTube and Facebook every other Friday from November to April.

The mission of the International Playwrights Festival is to recognize the work of emerging and established playwrights and to build a link between the playwrights, the theatre community and our audiences. The festival is a celebration of new works by playwrights from across the country and around the globe. For the ninth year, 150 plays were accepted for consideration from across the United States and as far away as China and New Zealand.

Each production will be available to view online for a period of two weeks before being taken down. A detailed schedule of the air dates will be released on November 6th. There is no fee to watch but donations are always accepted. This virtual festival is made possible with a generous donation from The Marine Family.

This year's winning playwrights are (in no particular order):
FINAL REST by Victoria Z. Daly (CT)
AN INVITATION TO MY CIRCUS by Charlene Donaghy (CT)
ANALOG by George Kelly (NH)
EXTENDED PLAY by Ben Marshall (NJ)
MOTHERHOOD by Lawrence Aronovitch (Ontario, Canada)
RELATIVITY AND ME by Len Cuthburt (Ontario, Canada)
PUT ON A GRUMPY FACE by Reed Halvorson (SC)
PERMANENT INK by Charlene Donaghy (CT)
GOOD MORNING by Anne Lucas (MA)
FOLDED by Bara Swain (NY)
DIRECTIONS by Penny Jackson (NY)
SAUL by Colleen O'Doherty (NE)