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The Reader's Theatre Collaborative is the joint venture of Ron Pullins, Leslie Powell and Marc Clopton. We are devoted to the advanced development of plays and theater on Boston's North Shore. We currently sponsoring a Saturday Morning series of plays in the Readers' Theater format, all of which take place once a month at Marc Clopton's Actor's Studio at the Tannery in Newburyport on the second Saturday (after the first Sunday) of each month. Audience feedback is a vital part of the project, so each play has a talk back following each play.

All productions are at the Actor's Studio at the Tannery in Newburyport. Saturdays 10:00 AM
For Directions, or reservations, call (978) 465-1229.
$7 suggested donation.

Inspired by a ban on women wearing burkas on their campus, Intisar, an African-American Muslim girl studying at the American University in Cairo, and Samar, her Egyptian roommate, embark on a project to create a short video exploring the controversy surrounding the Muslim practice of women wearing veils...or not. Along the way they discover that cross cultural friendships in a post 9/11 world require courage and understanding.

VEILS was also the recipient of a play development grant from the InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia.

About the Playwright

A New Haven, Ct. playwright and director, Mr. Coash also spent three years in Bermuda and four years teaching playwriting at The American University in Cairo, Egypt. He has had many productions of his plays and has worked for such theatres as the Manhattan Theatre Club and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Coash has won numerous playwriting awards including Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Hammerstein Award, The Kennedy Center’s Lorraine Hansberry Award, and a Jerome Playwriting Fellowship. Coash is currently working on new plays commissioned by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The InterAct Theatre. VEILS has been developed with the generous aid of Western Kentucky University, The InterAct Theatre, and the Seven Devils Playwriting Conference.

Saturday September 12 10:00 am
at the Actors Theatre in the Tannery building Mill #1 Suite 5
Corner of Federal and Water Street
Tickets Suggested $7.00 at the door.
Call 978 465 1229 to make a reservation.