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Second
Stage presents winning play ‘Wives’
M.
Lynda Robinson, an actor and playwright involved in theater in Boston
for more than 20 years, won WSU’s 28th Annual National Playwriting
Contest.
Her
winning play, "Wives," will be presented by Second Stage
University Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 29-30 and
Dec. 1; and at 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Dec. 1-2, at the Welsbacher
Theatre, Hughes Metropolitan Complex, entrance N.
"Wives,"
directed by School of Performing Arts chair Bela Kiralyfalvi, is
a series of short plays about women as mates from newlyweds to widows.
The tone ranges from whimsical to powerfully precise and from comic
to poignant, poetic and serious.
Robinson
is an actor and playwright who has been involved in theater in Boston
for more than 20 years. She earned a master’s degree in creative
writing/playwriting from Boston University.
Two
of her 10-minute plays, "Men are from Milwaukee, Women are
from Phoenix" and "An Egg is an Egg is a Jellied Egg,"
were selected to be presented at the 2000 and 2001 Kennedy Center
American College Theatre Festivals, respectively, at the University
of New Hampshire. Material from the later play makes up part of
"Wives," which recently had a two-week workshop run at
the Boston Playwrights Theatre.
Robinson
is working on several full-length plays, including a play on the
life of Charles Dickens and a one-act spoof of a group of academics
in a literary criticism group discussing "Jane Eyre" with
Charlotte Bronte and Jane herself in attendence.
Call
978-3233 to reserve tickets. Prices start at $8 with discounts available.
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