Best Medicine Rep Presents NEW PLAYS/NEW VOICES

Best Medicine Rep, Gaithersburg’s professional theater company, is proud to present New Plays/New Voices, an evening of short plays written by Montgomery County Public School students. The plays will be performed by professional actors on Monday 24 April 2017 at 7:00 p.m. at Adventure Theatre in Glen Echo Park. The plays were written during residencies with playwright John Morogiello through Arts in Education Grants from the Maryland State Arts Council.

“I’ve been dying to present an evening like this ever since we founded the company,” says Best Medicine Rep’s artistic director John Morogiello, “Kids look at the world in a uniquely wonderful way that is simultaneously serious and hilarious. It’s what our company is all about.”

The four selected scripts are: Races with Buffalo by Alice Byrne’s fourth graders at Dr. Charles R. Drew Elementary School in Silver Spring, The Third Floor Bedroom by Dana Whitman’s fifth grade class at Potomac Elementary School, and two plays from Chevy Chase Elementary School fifth graders: Agent 355 by Josephine Luster’s class and Baron Von Steuben by Theresa M. Friis’ class.

A Teaching Artist for two decades, Morogiello found it difficult to narrow the evening to four scripts. “Over the course of the year I teach in nine schools for the Maryland State Arts Council, so we’re talking at least thirty-six different scripts. The students work tremendously hard on them and they’re wonderfully entertaining; it’s a shame that the plays disappear once the residency ends. We hope this evening serves as a celebration, and a continuance, of the joy we generate in the classroom.”

Performing in the plays will be Adam R. Adkins, Jamaly Allen, Terence Aselford, Rebecca A. Herron, Nayab Hussain, Deborah Lubega, Melissa B. Robinson, and Vashti Sadjedy.

Tickets for New Plays/New Voices are $8.00 in advance and $10.00 at the door. They are available for purchase through BrownPaperTickets.com.

WHO: Best Medicine Rep Theater Company

WHAT: Performance of New Plays/New Voices, four short plays by MCPS students

WHERE: Adventure Theatre, Glen Echo Park, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, MD

WHEN: Monday, April 24, 2017, 7:00 p.m.

TICKETS: $8.00 in advance, available through BrownPaperTickets.com,$10.00 at the door.