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Ghost children. Failing marriages. Dying parents. The women playwrights who penned the emotionally charged contemporary works making up Arizona Women’s Theatre Company’s Pandora Festival certainly cover plenty of potent subject matter.
They don’t seem to pull any punches either, tackling each of these tough topics in unblinking and dramatic fashion during the annual fest, which features staged readings of two full-length plays and a dozen shorter pieces.
For example, Larissa Brewington’s The Fire in Minerva involves an emotionally distraught woman who buys and restores her childhood home, only to end up confronting personal demons and the rotting memories lodged in its walls. Then there’s Afterlife at the Cinema by New York writer Hannah Lillith Assadi, a one-act play about a female film director whose career is on the rise while the health of her father is seriously declining.
The three-day festival kicks off Friday, May 20, at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 East Second Street. Performance times vary.
Fri., May 20, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., May 21, 2 & 7:30 p.m.; Sun., May 22, 2 p.m., 2011
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