LoNyLa NY/Velocity Lab presents a rehearsed reading/broadcast of Irish playwright Gary Duggan’s “Run/Don’t Run” on Sunday October 7th from 3PM - 5PM EST.
To attend in person, please go to New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate Acting - 721 Broadway, Room 521, NY 10003. To view online, click on LoNyLa's Livestream channel.
Directed by Alyse Rothman, "Run/Don't Run" features Chris Harbur ("Gene Massey"), Chris Henry ("Eoin Massey") and Maria-Christina Oliveras ("Perdita Alvarez"), and Lauren Fiorelli (Narrator/Stage Directions).
Ali Reader will be on camera for the online broadcast.
NYC 1999: A young man fleeing Dublin crash lands on the couch of his Irish American cousin, just as this older cousin's relationship with his girlfriend is imploding.
Over the summer the three cling to the last vestiges of the dying club scene and flirt with smalltime criminality as storm clouds gather on the horizon...
About the writer: Gary Duggan is an Irish playwright and screenwriter. He won the Stewart Parker Trust Award for his first play Monged. Other plays include Dedalus Lounge and Trans-Euro Express, which have toured throughout Ireland and performed internationally.
Gary's most recent play Shibari is an Abbey Theatre Commission for the 2012 Dublin Theatre Festival. Gary has also co-written Amber, a major four-part TV drama for RTE (Ireland's national network).
LoNyLa/Velocity Lab will conduct a multiple-city interactive feedback session after the reading/broadcast, enabling remote artists and audiences to connect via digital technology and discuss "Run/Don't Run."
On Sunday October 7th, LoNyLa LA member Jeff LeBeau will tune in from southern California whilst playwright Gary Duggan plugs in from Dublin, Ireland. Producing Artistic Director J Dakota Powell manages the feedback session for the New York-based event from London.
By using Vidyo's telepresence platform, LoNyLa/Velocity Lab can achieve business-quality videoconferencing with minimal latency. LoNyLa artists and audiences from different regions in the world can join a "room" for a lively gathering on the new work.
For more information about Velocity Lab's Autumn events, please visit our Broadcast Schedule.
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