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Feb. 13 2025

Everyman Theatre teases some new work with THE SANDWICH MINISTRY

By Gavin Witt | Posted in Interviews, Staff Blogs, WBJC Programs | Comments Off on Everyman Theatre teases some new work with THE SANDWICH MINISTRY

Everyman’s play reading series, “Script Tease,” continues Monday, February 17th, with a new work by Baltimorean Miranda Rose Hall and directed by Everyman Associate Artistic Director (and local actor/playwright) Tuyet Thi Pham.

The play, The Sandwich Ministry, explores the facets, fissures, and fractures of female friendship among three generations of women who find themselves teamed up making sandwiches in a small-town church basement after an epochal storm. Predictably, complications ensue–and as they contend with the damage of the storm and the needs of their neighbors, the trio also explores what brought them together or threatens to tear them apart. Is their friendship strong enough to make it through the night?

Hall, whose other work has been produced locally on stages large and small and whose solo piece A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction is currently touring internationally, also writes for television while juggling multiple current new plays under commission. But she’s back in her hometown for one night to share The Sandwich Ministry–though the staged reading will apparently not feature the on-stage sandwich making that is conceived as a feature of full productions of the play.

You can hear Miranda talk about all of this in our conversation on air at 91.5FM, or here:

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This reading continues the season-long showcase of new writing that Everyman is offering as part of its new “Script Tease” series. This series offers audiences an early look at new plays and a special glimpse into the creative process of playwriting, while also giving local creatives the opportunity to bring these stories to life for Baltimore-area theatergoers.

All “Script Tease” tickets are available on a Pay-What-You-Choose basis. Performances begin at 7:00PM but doors open at 6:00PM, with food and drink on sale and permitted inside the auditorium.

Reserve tickets and read more about the series, the play, and the playwright here.

 

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WBJC listeners and Baltimore audiences may know Gavin from his nearly 20 years as dramaturg and associate artistic director at Baltimore Center Stage (in which capacity he was a frequent guest on WBJC to talk about programs and events), or from regular appearances alongside Jonathan Palevsky at the Charles Theater for Cinema Sundays discussions. A director, dramaturg, producer, translator, and adaptor who also teaches on the theater faculty at Towson University, Gavin is a recent addition to the WBJC team and delighted to play this new role.

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