A Discourse of Folly

Wednesday, July 25 at 7:00pm

The Earl Hamner Playwrights Conference

presents

A Discourse of Folly
by
Stephen Sossaman

Directed by Shana Gold
Production Stage manager: Guinn Baker
Technical Director: J. Taylor

CAST:

Cardinal Roffoni - Robert Blumenstein
Calcolado - Mark Edmundsen
Felice - Mollie Remilard
Michelangelo - Ryan Wender
Machiavelli - John Lawson
Erasmus - Steven Williams
Pope Julius - Rick Hite
Panzuti - Bill Williamson

Stephen Sossaman is a poet and playwright living in Charlottesville. His most recent productions were "Dostoevsky and Rykova," produced at the Play On! Theatre in Charlottesville, Virginia, and "Saved," in this year's Overnight Sensations at Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke. He is the author of "Writing Your First Play," the facilitator of the Playwrights Lab at LiveArts Theatre in Charlottesville, and he taught this summer in Hollins University's new MFA in playwriting program. When he retired early from college teaching, Westfield State College in Massachusetts created the annual "Stephen Sossaman Prize" for creative writing students.

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Coming Up at the Hamner

Onstage June 25 - July 12

Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare
A Thieving Magpie Production
Thu. - Fri. at 7:30pm, Sun. at 2pm
Saturday at the Vineyard at 7pm

VPI Readings in June & July

Friday, June 5: Bill Rough will read his play Blackout
Friday, June 12: Actor read of Blackout, by Bill Rough.
Sat., June 20 at 7pm - Staged reading of Nobody's Wife, by Cindy Dlugolecki.
Sun., June 21 at 1pm - Staged reading of The Grove at Illium, by Jane Ann Crum.
Sat., July 25 at 7pm - Staged reading of Slow Instructions, by Roy Robbins.
Sun., July 26 at 1pm - Staged reading of All is Always Now, by Robert Wray.
Unless otherwise noted, we will gather for a snack and a chat at 6:30 and start the reading at 7pm. Please come listen to the play and be part of the coversation afterwards.