Events

Ashland New Plays Festival is bringing this year’s four winning playwrights to town for ANPF 2014, October 22 to 26. Winning playwrights James Harmon Brown for The Groyser; Bob Clyman for A Little Quid Pro Quo; Michael Edan for Homecoming; and Jack Karp for Irreversible will spend a week in Ashland, rehearsing with their casts and seeing their plays performed as staged readings by actors from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the community. There are two readings of each winning play at 2 and 8 p.m. at the Unitarian Center at 87 4th Street in Ashland. Tickets and information at www.ashlandnewplays.org.

A Little Quid Pro Quo, directed by John Stadelman, sets a lawyer in competition with a philosopher over an issue of moral integrity. In The Groyser, directed by Kenneth Albers, a recipe for family dysfunction is seasoned with connections to the Holocaust. Catherine Lynn Davis, directs Irreversible, which dramatizes Robert Oppenheimer’s fateful choice to pursue his nuclear bomb. In Homecoming, directed by OSF actor Barzin Akhavan, an Iraq veteran with PTSD connects with his father, a Vietnam vet with PTSD.