Plays-in-Development: "Discards"

Each season, The Sauk searches for plays that are still in the development process. We match playwrights with directors and then actors to help workshop the play, making improvements to the script throughout the process. Then, public readings are held and the audience is invited to share their feedback. Playwrights leave the process with advice from a director, a cast and an audience.

This is a "Pay What You Can" event. Tickets are only available at the door starting one hour prior to performance time.

About "Discards"
Mari and Lloyd, two widowed retirees, volunteer at a charity thrift shop. Everything is humming along without incident until two new volunteers arrive. Spark is a smart but troubled teenager who has been sentenced to community service for a crime he says he didn’t commit. Cherry is a recent divorcee looking to fill some time. The dynamics in the shop shift, with Mari resenting the intrusion on her territory (and her designs on Lloyd). Tension is not far from the surface, and then something goes missing and things turn ugly. A lighthearted romantic dramedy about aging, friendship, trust ... and love.

​This production is sponsored by State Farm Agent Jason Adcock, Gossage Eye Institute & Optical, Hillsdale CASA, Don Toffollo of Edward Jones, Country Carpets and DJ Johnson & Associates. A grant from the Walmart Foundation encourages local writers to aspire to get their work produced at The Sauk.

You may also like the following events from The Sauk:

• This Saturday, 28th June, 09:00 am, Sauk Garden Work Day in Jonesville
• Next month, 11th July, 07:30 pm, Plays-in-Development: "Killing It" and "The Following is Based on a True Story" in Jonesville
• Next month, 12th July, 02:00 pm, Plays-in-Development Jr.: "The Albino Woman of the Kaw River Valley (Dun Dun Daaaaa!)" and "Places!" in Jonesville

Also check out other Arts events in Jonesville, Workshops in Jonesville, Theatre events in Jonesville.