Black Box Performing Arts Center (Black Box PAC) reopens for live performances with a series of cutting-edge plays. All current safety and health protocols are followed.
After a successful summer of free outdoor Shakespeare, Black Box PAC in Englewood is opening its doors (and keeping them open for more airflow) with a new play reading series: Two-Hander! Throughout October, Black Box PAC will present two-person play readings, featuring pairs of actors that are already in each other’s “bubble.”
The series kicks off on Sunday, October 11th at 8:00 pm with a double feature. Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story is a shocking one-act play that was written in just three weeks – Albee’s first play! A man sits peacefully reading in the sunlight in Central Park. There enters a second man. “He is a young, unkempt and undisciplined vagrant where the first is neat, ordered, well-to-do and conventional. The vagrant is a soul in torture and rebellion. He longs to communicate so fiercely that he frightens and repels his listener. He is a man drained of all hope who, in his passion for company, seeks to drain his companion. With provocative humor and unrelenting suspense, the young savage slowly, but relentlessly, brings his victim down to his own atavistic level as he relates a story about his visit to the zoo” (description courtesy of, and presented in special arrangement with, Dramatists Play Service, Inc.).
After a brief “intermission,” the show will continue with a second showing: Death of a Cat, written by Niko Tam. Also a one act, this play will feature the same actors as The Zoo Story: Michael Gardiner and Sean Mannix.
Two-Hander Performance Schedule:
- Sunday, October 11th at 8:00 pm: Zoo Story/Death of a Cat
- Thursday, October 15th at 8:00 pm: Oleanna
- Friday, October 16th at 9:00 pm: Venus in Fur
- Friday, October 23rd at 8:00 pmz: Dumbwaiter/Pigs
Masks are required by all audience members. Attendees will also be asked to fill out a COVID screening form for contact tracing purposes. All current health and safety protocols will be followed. Tickets are limited due to capacity restrictions. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit blackboxpac.com.
Black Box is located at 49 E. Palisade Avenue in Englewood, New Jersey.
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