THE UPTOWN COLLECTIVE – READINGS – THE DREAM CENTER HARLEM

THE UPTOWN COLLECTIVE: STAGED READING & TALKBACK
THE MAKING AND BREAKING OF GLASS

FRIDAY | MARCH 24
7 PM ET

Join The Uptown Collective at The Dream Center for a staged reading with professional actors of a new artist’s work followed by a talkback! Light food and refreshments will be served.

Synopsis:

The Making and Breaking of Glass is a single-play retelling of Sophocles’ Theban Trilogy focused on the younger generation: Antigone, Ismene, Polynices, Eteocles, and Haemon. We follow the First Family of Greek Tragedy, still rulers of the ancient city of Thebes but styled after characters on a CW teen melodrama, through events spanning from the beginning of Oedipus Rex to the end of Antigone and watch as their carefree, privileged world is torn apart, first by plague and then by in-fighting and revolution.

The Making and Breaking of Glass is a critical exploration of privilege and purpose for “liberal elites” in their 20s and 30s who grew up watching Gossip Girl and are now mired in existential crisis after realizing that their attendance at a bunch of anti-Trump protests really did nothing at all; it asks what one does when one has everything except a reason to exist.

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THE UPTOWN COLLECTIVE TABLE READS

Are you a writer with a new script you’ve been polishing but haven’t heard out loud? We want to host your first table read.

Uptown Collective table reads are closed-door sessions involving a writer, professional actors, and a founding member of the UC. The reading will occur without prior rehearsal.

Interested artists email: uc@dreamcenterharlem.org.
Paid Opportunities!

ACTORS INCLUDE:
• your headshot
• your resume
• your union affiliation

WRITERS INCLUDE:
• a pdf of your script
• brief introduction to the piece

CONTACT US AT uc@dreamcenterharlem.org.

THE UPTOWN COLLECTIVE STAGED READINGS

Are you a writer who has a finished piece you’d like to see read for an audience? We want to produce your first staged reading.

Uptown Collective staged readings are public performances involving a writer, professional actors, a founding member of the Uptown Collective, and an audience. Each piece is rehearsed once before the public presentation.

Interested artists email: uc@dreamcenterharlem.org.
Paid Opportunities!

ACTORS INCLUDE:
• your headshot
• your resume
• your union affiliation

WRITERS INCLUDE:
• a pdf of your script
• brief introduction to the piece

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SAMPLING OF PAST EVENTS/CLASSES

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The Uptown Collective programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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