The second presentation of The Baltimore Playwrights Festival’s 37th Season will be Unlucky Soldiers by Robert Garcia, opening on September 8th. Unlucky Soldiers is directed by Barry Feinstein and produced by Theatrical Mining Company at The Downtown Cultural Arts Center, 401 North Howard Street (corner of Howard and Mulberry), Baltimore, MD  21201.  Performances will be matinees only at 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, September 8th through September 23rd. Admission is $10 (veterans free). For further information, go to http://www.theatricalmining. org/

Andre Regal is returning home from his combat tour in Vietnam. Unbeknownst to him, he is coming home with an uninvited guest for a final role of the dice. Don’t miss this semi-autobiographical play of one soldier’s battle for survival.

Robert Garcia was raised in Galveston, Texas and has lived in Baltimore, Maryland since 1971. He served in the 101st Airborne “Screaming Eagles” during the Vietnam War. Robert has been writing most of his life, moving to playwrighting in recent years. Among his plays are Concrete Jungle, The Devil Within, and Requiem for a Soldier. Robert currently produces new plays at Robert’s Black Box with the Theatrical Mining Company at the Downtown Cultural Arts Center in Baltimore.

Consent
by Glennyce Lynn
August 16,17,18,19  23,24,25,26
8 pm Th, Fri, Sat, 2 pm Sun
Directed by Andre Tittle
Produced by Spotlighters Theatre in collaboration with the BPF and Miriam Bazensky
Spotlighters Theatre
http://www.spotlighters.org
817 Saint Paul Street, Baltimore, MD 21202

In a near yet very changed future, where civilians volunteer to undergo traumatic medical testing in exchange for “favors” from the government, two doctors find themselves on lockdown with their belligerent patient and are forced to confront the very nature of their work. Does the given consent absolve them of the horrors of their work? Is informed consent still consent if all you’ve done is make it impossible to say no?

Starting at 7 pm tonight are callbacks for the new play Consent at Spotlighters Theatre at 817 St Paul Street in Baltimore. Directed by Andre Tittle and produced by the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, the play will run August 16, 17, 18, 19 and 23, 24, 25, 26.

In a near, yet very changed, future, where civilians volunteer to undergo traumatic medical testing in exchange for “favors” from the government, two doctors find themselves on lockdown with their belligerent patient and are forced to confront the very nature of their work. Does the given consent absolve them of the horrors of their work? Is informed consent still consent if all you’ve done is make it impossible to say no?

The deadline for submitting new plays to the Baltimore Playwrights Festival is approaching. A limit of 60 plays will be accepted for the 38th Season through May 31, 2018.

Any playwright currently living or working in Maryland or the District of Columbia, or who has previously lived or worked within Maryland or D.C., is eligible to submit. Plays must not have received a staged production (lines memorized and tickets sold) at any time prior to or at the time of submission. Only electronic submissions of plays via the BPF website will be accepted. There is a $10 submission fee for each script submitted, and each playwright may only submit one script each season. Complete submission guidelines are at www.baltplayfest.org.

The Baltimore Playwrights Festival will seek productions of several plays through local community theaters during 2019. Theaters choose which plays they want to produce. Some of the submitted scripts will be recommended by the reading committee for public readings and receive them.

During the last thirty-seven years, The Baltimore Playwrights Festival has presented over 299 productions by 193 playwrights at 30 different theaters. We have read and evaluated over 2,950 plays. The BPF nurtures the talents of Maryland and DC playwrights through public readings, discussions, critiques and workshopping of new plays. Participating local theaters offer productions of some of the submitted scripts during our season. Further information can be found on the BPF website, www.baltplayfest.org.