April 19 – 22:  The New Plays Festival 25.2 presents American Medieval:  Historical Reenactments of New Plays, featuring works by Brown graduate playwrights and artists from the Brown/Trinity Consortium.  Including:

The Fishbone Fables by Dan LeFranc, directed by Peter Sampieri.  Thursday April 19 & Saturday, April 21 @ 8 pm and Sunday, April 22 @ 2 pm.:  The Scratch. The Gloom. The Tallyman's Tally. Very little is known about the elusive Fishbone Fables, save for a number of crude maps that managed to survive the Providence festival. Come join the Mad Minstrels of New England (and their bookish translator) as they recreate a theatrical event whose supreme antiquity is only matched by its tremendous mysteries. With songs. Standing room only.

Our Last Great Pageant of Progress, or Ya Hold ‘Em I’ll Punch ‘Em by Cory Hinkle, directed by Birgitta Victorson. Friday, April 20 & Sunday, April 22 at 8 pm; Saturday, April 21 at 2 pm:  It’s the end times in the once-great oil town of Bliss and due to recent floods the yearly carnival‘s been canceled.  But Nathan and his followers have stepped up to fill the gap with a re-staging of the town’s grand history in the one place big enough to hold such a fantastic spectacle – the last bastion of our former greatness, an empty Wal-Mart.

Friday and Saturday night performances of both plays will be followed by a 9:30 pm performance of an original monologue by Sam Marks (MFA ’06). 

Free, tickets required.  For ticket reservations, e-mail NPFtix@gmail.com with your name, phone number and number of tickets requested for each performance.

Performance location: Pell Chafee Performance Center, 87 Empire Street