Our debut livestream program to be broadcast on Saturday, Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. will feature readings of Mark’s new short play, titled “Our Love is Here to Stay: I Need You Like I Need a Hole in the Head,” and Alicia Grega’s “Grip,” an absurd dark comedy in which exhausted woman goes to drastic measures to challenge her privileged sister’s aloofness while on a much-needed vacation.

Cast includes Deirdre (Lynch) Navin, Heather Burdick, Eric Lutz, Kimmie Leff, and Tim McDermott.

Born out of the ashes of the Jason Miller Playwrights’ Project which Alicia coordinated as a program of Scranton Public Theatre for five years, Common Play Factory has been limited in what we’ve been able to produce by a lack of resources (space, funding). It’s hard to bring new collaborators in when you don’t know what or where is next.

But now here we are in the middle of this pandemic even those with a homebase are not able to gather there. Virtual production spaces are not the theatres we’ve loved for so many years and can’t wait to get back to, but they are a means by which we can continue to practice our craft, as writers and actors and designers and story weavers.

This is what we can do right now with what we have.

We’ll let you know more as the next couple of weeks evolves.

-ag