@3pm — Lips Living Room Reading Series

_gaia’s Directors’ Residency 2009

Presents Third Annual

Lips Living Room Reading Series

One-act play readings directed by: Sonya Cooke, Jennifer Domani, Taylor Keith, and Angela Sharp

Featuring: “Strays” by Joe Del Priore, “Once Removed” by Jami Brandli, “Asking For It,” by Leigh Hunt , “I Can Tell Your Handbag is Fake,” by Dean Lundquist, “Laying Off” by James McLindon, “Sophie in the Water”, by Shannon Murdoch, “Washout,” by Connie Schindewolf, and “The Fund” by Deb Victoroff.

Followed by a Q&A forum with invited playwrights

The Directors’ Residency at _gaia provides an annual opportunity for female directors, both up-and-coming and established, to workshop one-act plays submitted by emerging playwrights to the community as staged readings.

When: Saturday, September 26th, 2009 at 8:00 pm

Where: Monroe Theatrespace, 2nd floor

720 Monroe Street (between 7th and 8th St)

Hoboken, New Jersey

Tickets: $5.00 Available at Door

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@ 8pm — _gaia proudly presents a staged reading of

The Flora Dora Girls Weekly Sewing Circle

An unpublished late work by award-winning Hoboken-born playwright, Louis LaRusso II

Directed and edited by Taylor Keith

Produced by Lillian Ribeiro

Featuring: Susan Bucci, Eileen Gaughan, Domenica Galati, Angela Kariotis, Sheila Mart, Ellen O’Neil, Florence Pape, Chelsea Lee Richardson, Angela Sharp, Trish Szymanski, and Eva Visco

The Flora Dora Girls Weekly Sewing Circle is Louis LaRusso II’s loving tribute to the strength and solidarity of the hard-working, passionate, and funny women who labored in the sweatshops together in the working-class city of Hoboken circa 1965. They come together for a weekly sewing circle, the one place where they don’t need to be ‘ladies’. They sew, gossip, laugh, cry, fight, curse, ask big questions, tell great stories and bond – like a fist! The Flora Dora Girls Weekly Sewing Circle will provoke heart and soul as well as lots of laughter.

When: Saturday, September 26th, 2009 at 8:00 pm

Where: Monroe Theatrespace, 2nd floor

720 Monroe Street (between 7th and 8th St)

Hoboken, New Jersey

Tickets: $5.00 Available at Door (Mature subject matter)

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For  general information and directions: http://www.monroecenter.com

There is parking at the rear of the building.

For more information visit www.gaiastudio.org or email Lillian Ribeiro at performing@gaiastudio.org.

For hearing devices or a Braille program, please contact 973-769-1997 at least one week in advance.

_gaia is dedicated to fostering women’s activism, art practice and study. We actively promote the work of artists. We give directors and playwrights a unique opportunity to work in a productive environment and foster their creativity while keeping in mind the issues that affect women. The Directors’ Residency program and Lips Living Room Reading Series is a direct reflection of our mission. For more information on the female Directors’ Residency at _gaia or submission guidelines for the Lips Living Room Reading Series contact Lillian Ribeiro, Director of Performance & Film, by email at performing@gaiastudio.org or visit http://www.gaiastudio.org