Students to produce second play festival in the Woodlands

This summer, the play festival will feature new works from playwrights and actors aged 14 to 23. The goal of Aside’s AN EVENING… is to present a new, powerful venue in which young playwrights and actors can not only present their work, but also express themselves.

Aside will kick off the evening with “Glass Houses,” a comedy written by Tommy Waas, an upcoming junior at Klein High School. Directed by Lonestar College sophomore, Andrew J. Rogers, “Glass Houses” tells the story of two buddies who suddenly make the startling realization that they are in a play. Hilarity ensues, as the two friends enter an all out war with the Writer, who punishes their rebellion by sending them on a whirlwind adventure through theatre as we know it.

Up next is the dramatic short, “Predicament” written by Katlin Newman, a rising sophomore at The Woodlands High School. “Predicament” follows the story of Caroline (played by Aside Resident Company member and recent TWHS graduate, Shelby Escamilla) as she must come to terms with her husband’s recent erratic behavior and her daughter’s self-destructive nature.

The evening continues with “Parallel Lies” written by Texas Lutheran graduate, Adam Sweeney. “Parallel Lies” focuses on two separate couples in two different locations whose conversations suddenly seem to becoming very similar. As their lines intertwine, the audience is kept guessing what will come next. Both “Predicament” and “Parallel Lies” will be co-directed by Aside founders and administrators, Diane Goldsmith and James Canfield.

AN EVENING will finish off with the over-the-top comedy “The Powers That Are,” written by recent University of Nebraska graduate, Noel Yuri-Bermudez and directed by TWHS senior, Tyler Lewis. “The Powers That Are” finds its cast on a single’s cruise looking for love. Ex-lovers, Allen and Lucia (played by Jonathan Foster and Rachel Moore) must survive this zany and ridiculous cruise and hopefully in the end leave not so single.

AN EVENING OF ORIGNAL PLAYS 2009 performs August 11th and 12th at 7:00 PM in Asbury Hall at the Woodlands United Methodist Church. The address for the church is 2200 Lake Woodlands Dr, The Woodlands, TX, 77380.

General admission is $5. The evening may not be suitable for younger audiences.

For more information e-mail info@asideproductions.org.