Thrown Stone’s fifth season features two new plays about friendship, competition, and coming of age in today’s world: Athena by Gracie Gardner, and Hysterical! by Elenna Stauffer in repertory at Ridgefield Conservatory of Dance.
Athena
by Gracie Gardner New England Premiere July 14-August 6, 2022
Mary Wallace and Athena are brave, and seventeen, and fencers, and training for the Junior Olympics. They practice together, they compete against each other, they spend their lives together. They wish they were friends.
by Elenna Stauffer New England Premiere July 21- August 7, 2022
It’s the Bandits’ best year EVER! Until… one by one, the cheerleading squad succumbs to a mysterious illness. As the traditional pecking order is upended, the girls’ relationships are tested. With a deceptively comedic first act, Hysterical! addresses serious subject matter, examining the vulnerabilities of teenage girls and the poignancy of life on the cusp of adulthood.
Hysterical! was a semifinalist for the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, the Hidden River Playwriting Award, and the Dennis and Victoria Ross Foundation Playwrights program.
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Looking foward to 2023.