Summer at Point of Honor

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Get excited for our 2024 Summer at The Point!

Endstation Theatre Company returns to its roots with new works and site-specific storytelling…

 

June 13-16

Our 2024 Playwright's Initiative Festival is new play reading series that will have 3 to 5 staged readings of new and original scripts about Central, VA. This 2024 reading series will be an important step in developing material for fully staged productions - continuing Endstation Theatre Company’s tradition of keeping your story alive.

Current working titles include: 

Whirlwind - about Dr. Robert Walter "Whirlwind" Johnson. Dr. Walter (as the Johnson Foundation puts it) "built a tennis dynasty in Lynchburg, Va. that produced the first two African-American grand slam champions, Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe." Without the contributions of Dr. Walter, tennis greats like the Williams sisters and the rising star Coco Gauff may not have had a future in the sport. 

Good Birth is a new play about The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded. This facility, right across the James River, is now called The Central Virginia Training Center. It became known for its forced sterilization of the poor and people of color. It was also the facility at the center of the 1927 Supreme Court decision Buck v. Bell that upheld a physician’s right to sterilize a patient. Good Birth is a fictional tale of a young girl asked too soon to fight for her right to bear a child and suffer society’s misguided view of intelligence; all while facing down the brute force of the American Eugenics Movement in the early 1900s.

Location: Smith Theatre, Randolph College

Specific dates of readings will be chosen upon completion of script development…

June 20 - July 14

Twelfth Night, one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, is a tale of unrequited love – hilarious and heartbreaking. Twins are separated in a shipwreck, and forced to fend for themselves in a strange land. The first twin, Viola, falls in love with Orsino, who dotes on Olivia, who falls for Viola but is idolized by Malvolio. Enter Sebastian, who is the spitting image of his twin sister...lots of confusion follows around mistaken identity. Eventually all is revealed, the brother and sister are reunited and the love triangle is resolved.

This production will be performed at an easily accessible community venue.

Location: Point of Honor, 109 Norwood Street, Lynchburg, VA 24504

June 27 - July 13

You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s “done something stupid.” She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything that’s worth living for. 1. Ice cream. 2. Kung Fu movies. 3. Burning things. 4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose. 5. Construction cranes. 6. Me. You leave it on her pillow. You know she’s read it because she’s corrected your spelling. Soon, the list will take on a life of its own. Every Brilliant Thing is about depression and the lengths we will go to for those we love. This play has become a popular staple in the regional theatre circuit. 

“[A] heart-wrenching, hilarious play…One of the funniest plays you’ll ever see about depression—and possibly one of the funniest plays you’ll ever see, full stop…There is something tough being confronted here—the guilt of not being able to make those we love happy—and it is explored with unflinching honesty.” —The Guardian (UK).

Location: Point of Honor, 109 Norwood Street, Lynchburg, VA 24504

About Endstation Theatre

Endstation Theatre Company is committed to producing new works, reinterpretations of classical plays, and other works chosen specifically for the Central Virginia community based on the historical, current, and cultural events of the area.

Financial Support

Endstation Theatre Company is a 501c3 nonprofit and, like most nonprofit theatres, 70% of our operating budget comes from the generous support of our patrons and community partners. We invite you to join us!
 

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