‘Point Last Seen’ Appears In SCR’s NewSCRipts Series
COSTA MESA, Calif. (Nov. 11, 2011) — Point Last Seen, a relationship drama about two couples approaching life’s crossroads, will have a staged reading Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m. as part of South Coast Repertory’s NewSCRipts series. Itis the 116th play to receive a staged reading in SCR’s venerable play reading program.
Playwright Scott Organ tells the story of Tucker, Dave, Laura and Jane, who are all dealing with lives that haven’t turned out as they’d imagined. Tucker and Dave face the possibility of losing their jobs. Laura can’t get pregnant. Jane doesn’t know who she is anymore. The lives of these lost souls intertwine in a tale of friendship and betrayal, dreams and disappointment, loneliness and love.
Point Last Seen will be directed by Casey Stangl, who directed SCR’s In the Next Room or the vibrator play last season and the recent production of Peace in Our Time for The Antaeus Company.
Organ is the author of Phoenix, which premiered at the 2010 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and City, which received the L.A. Drama-logue Award for Best New Play after it premiered at Circle X Theatre. These and other works have been produced at Hangar Theatre, The Flea Theater, Atlantic Theater Company and The Barrow Company, among others.
The annual NewSCRipts series of three Monday evening play readings by emerging and established playwrights was launched in 1985 as a way to bring the audience into the process of creating new work. After the readings, which take place on the Julianne Argyros Stage, audience members engage in lively exchanges with the playwright and become active participants in the play’s development, providing invaluable feedback for the writer. Plays selected for the NewSCRipts series have earned six Pulitzer Prize nominations, with Margaret Edson’s Wit winning the prize in 1999.
South Coast Repertory’s NewSCRipts series of play readings is generously underwritten by Elaine J. Weinberg.
TICKETS to the NewSCRipts reading of Point Last Seen can be purchased online at www.scr.org, by phone at (714) 708-5555 or in person at the SCR box office. NewSCRipts tickets are $12 each and include audience discussions with the playwright and dramaturg.
LOCATION: South Coast Repertory is located at 655 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa, at the Bristol Street/Avenue of the Arts exit off the San Diego (405) Freeway in the Folino Theatre Center, part of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. Parking is available off Anton Blvd. on Park Center Drive.
COMING UP: A Christmas Carol (Nov. 26 – Dec. 24); Topdog/Underdog (Jan. 8 – 29); Elemeno Pea (Jan. 27 – Feb. 26).
PHOTO EDITORS: Digital images of South Coast Repertory productions are available at www.scr.org/press.
ABOUT SCR: Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory, founded in 1964 by David Emmes and Martin Benson and now under the leadership of Artistic Director Marc Masterson and Managing Director Paula Tomei, is widely recognized as one of the leading professional theatres in the United States. SCR is committed to theatre that illuminates the compelling personal and social issues of our time, not only on its stages but through its wide array of education and outreach programs. While its productions represent a balance of classic and modern theatre, SCR is renowned for its extensive new-play development program, which includes the nation’s largest commissioning program for emerging and established writers and composers. Each year, it showcases some of country’s best new plays in the Pacific Playwrights Festival, which attracts theatre professionals from across the country. Of SCR’s more than 450 productions, one-quarter have been world premieres, whose subsequent stagings achieved enormous success throughout America and around the world. Two SCR-developed works have won Pulitzer Prizes, and another eight were named Pulitzer finalists. In addition, SCR works have won several Obie Awards and scores of major new-play awards. Located in Costa Mesa, California, SCR’s Folino Theatre Center is home to the 507-seat Segerstrom Stage, the 336-seat Julianne Argyros Stage and the 94-seat Nicholas Studio. Today, SCR produces 13 shows and eight public readings each season.
