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FAMILY PLANNING
by Julia Edwards
The Road Theatre's Monday Night Free Reading Series
Monday, April 23, 2007 @ 8pm
The Lankershim Arts Center
5108 Lankershim Blvd. North Hollywood
Wine and Cheese
http://www.roadtheatre.org/

About the Play
Olivia seethes with hormones. She told Hamish a million times she was ovulating tonight. How could he forget? But when Olivia pushes her unemployed panic-stricken husband too far, he snaps: maybe he didn’t forget! On one very bad night with a house full of guests, Olivia and Hamish must dredge up years of neglected marital dirt to answer not: are we going to do it?, but: will our marriage survive the night?

About the Playwright
Julia Edwards studied Semiotics at Brown University and received an MFA in Playwriting from UC-San Diego. Her play THE RATS ARE GETTING BIGGER received a reading in The Public’s New Work Now festival and was produced in the NYC International Fringe Festival. She was commissioned by South Coast Repertory to write LOCKDOWN which was subsequently produced there. She has worked with LAByrinth Theatre Company (NYC), Salvage Vanguard Theater (Austin), Printer’s Devil (Seattle), Collaboration (Chicago), and The Fritz (San Diego), among others. She wrote a screenplay for Timbergrove Productions (producers of Adam Rapp’s Winter Passing). She has been developing Family Planning over the last year with the help of Echo Theatre Company and Apparition Productions in NYC.