Alan McLaughlin's Play "Anna" Receives Aronoff Stage Reading on December 5th; Play Based on the Terry Schaivo Incident

The Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative is pleased to announce the stage reading of the two act play "Anna" written by Alan McLaughlin. The reading will take place on Tuesday, December 2, 2006, at 7:30 pm, in the Fifth Third Bank Theater, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Seventh and Main streets, downtown Cincinnati, OH.

Cincinnati (PRWEB) November 21, 2006 -- The Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative is pleased to announce the stage reading of the two act play "Anna" written by Alan McLaughlin. The reading will take place on Tuesday, December 2, 2006, at 7:30 pm, in the Fifth Third Bank Theater, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Seventh and Main streets, downtown Cincinnati.

McLaughlin says that his play "Anna" is based on the Terry Schaivo incident. McLaughlin also noted that he set the play in two realities, a hospital setting and all its attendant frictions, and a peaceful, calm realm where Anna is visited by spirit guides.

New Voices stage readings occur monthly from September to May and are sponsored by the Cincinnati Arts Association and the Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative. Tickets are $6 and may be purchased at the door on the night of the performances or they may be purchased by phone by calling the Aronoff Center box office at 513-621-2787.

The Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative is a grassroots organization of playwrights, directors and actors devoted to bringing plays written by local playwrights to the Cincinnati stage in the form of staged readings. Staged readings are an important step in the development of new plays. The audience is encouraged to provide feedback and join in the collaborative process of bringing a new play to life. Preliminary to full productions staged readings allow playwrights, actors, directors to receive audience responses about the play-in-progress. Plays originally presented in the New Voices Series have been produced in New York and Los Angeles and by the Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati.

CPI is accepting new plays for stage reading consideration for the remainder of the 2006-2007 New Voices Season. Area playwrights are encouraged to submit a full-length play or three one-acts, along with $15 check payable to CPI. The fee includes a year's membership in CPI and membership privileges. If interested, mail a typed copy of your script along with a $15 check to: CPI, Box 141164, Cincinnati, OH 45250-1164.

For more information contact Phil Paradis at 513-241-5154 or visit the CPI website at www.cinciplaywrights.org .

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