Casting has finalized for MacLean’s newest play, The Point, which will be performed at the Road Theatre as part of their 15th Annual Summer Playwrights Festival.
Ali’s play, a dark and comedic thriller based on the true story of a murder in the woods amongst ‘friends’, was selected out of over 900 submissions for The Road Theatre’s 15th Annual Summer Playwrights Festival.
The Point, which boasts Boston accents, drug busts, brutality, and Bon Jovi, will be presented as a staged reading on Friday, July 19th at 8pm at The Road Theatre, at 10747 Magnolia Boulevard in North Hollywood, CA.
Funny, dark, menacing, and shocking, THE POINT explores dating violence, class inequity, and the growing opioid crisis all within two small neighboring towns. The story, told out of sequence, follows the aftermath of a townie love triangle and murder of a co-ed, but on a macro level it examines the rise of economic inequity along with corresponding opioid and Fentanyl deaths.
THE POINT is set behind the “Tofu Curtain”, an invisible county line that divides the quaint Ivy college town of Northampton from the run-down factory town of Holyoke in Western Massachusetts. While Northampton boasts Smith College, Holyoke has the highest rate of pregnancies, STDs, and the largest heroin and Fentanyl trade in the New England area.
Ali speaks about the show:
First developed with the help of Summer Salt on Cape Cod, Antaeus Theatre Lab, and EST in LA, The Point at SPF is directed by Ryan McRee the cast includes: Patrick Reiger, Michael King, Allison Blaize, Sam Bianchini, Aaron Lyons, Moe Irvin, Stephen Tobolowsky, Blaire Chandler, and Bruce Katzman.
For more information on the7/19/24 performance and tickets, go to: THE POINT TICKETS.
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