The John & Joyce Ambruster
Play-Reading Series, 2022–2023

A few years ago, we decided we’d like to present more plays to our Rogue audience. Our season schedule was too full to offer more fully-produced plays, so we decided to produce a play-reading series. At the very same time, John & Joyce Ambruster asked to fund a special project at The Rogue.

It was a perfect marriage.

In The John & Joyce Ambruster Play-Reading Series we offer readings of plays that might be of interest to our Rogue audience. Each play is rehearsed by a group of actors for about 12 hours and performed with scripts in hand. Some of these plays will be fully produced in future years, and some of the plays are just interesting to hear once. Either way, you get to taste more plays each year.

The 2022–2023 Season of Play-Readings

Our Country’s Good

by Timberlake Wertenbaker

In 1789, at the penal colony that would become the city of Sydney, English convicts must overcome brutal living conditions to mount Australia’s first stage play.

Sunday, July 24, 2022 at 2:00 pm

I Am My Own Wife

by Doug Wright

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play about German antiquarian Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi and Communist regimes in East Berlin as an open transvestite.

Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 2:00 pm

Heroes of the Fourth Turning

by Will Arbery

Near midnight in Wyoming, four young Catholic conservatives clash over generational politics in search of spiritual grace and clarity in a country increasingly at war with itself.

NEW DATE

Sunday, April 2, 2023 at 2:00 pm

Constellations

by Nick Payne

Questions of choice and destiny play out with infinite possibilities in this spellbinding love story about a beekeeper, a cosmologist, and quantum mechanics.

Sunday, May 21, 2023 at 2:00 pm

Single tickets to each reading are available for $17, or you can purchase a Play-Reading Season Ticket to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th readings for $45.
Season ticket holders are provided reserved seating.