Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse will present a free "screened" reading of Alice Gerstenberg's popular comedy, THE POTBOILER, via live stream video, with talkback to follow, on Saturday, May 23, 2020 at 8 PM, EST.
The program will also be simultaneously broadcast on WBAI Radio 99.5 FM and wbai.org In THE POTBOILER, Alice Gerstenberg turns the perspicacity and wit that so readily and affectionately skewered her social set to another world she knew so well: the rarified, competitive, tightly knit world of theater. Prosperous and prolific playwright, Mr. Sud--an inveterate hack--offers to let a hopeful neophyte, young Wouldby, attend a first read and rehearsal of his new play. Picking up objects on his desk for inspiration, he begins Ms. Pencil and Mr. Inkwell on a desperate and dishonorable plot to sully Miss Ivory, cheat her father of a fortune, and break her promises to the upright Mr. Ruler. The plot thickens, the mustaches twirl, the script is cut and pasted, Sud editorializes throughout, and the actors fight for their lives to make something of the nonsense springing from the great man's imagination. Then someone finds the revolvers.Running Time: 40 minutes
Talkback to follow, including audience questions
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