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Playwright Showcase: Featuring the Works of Ryan Bultrowicz

August 27, 2022 at 7:00 PM

The Potomac Playmakers is proud to showcase five original plays by the internationally published and performed playwright, Ryan Bultrowicz

A Stage Door Production. Tickets are $10, but free for current members. Get tickets here.

Cleanliness at the End of the World (40 mins)

Three Women and an Onion (20 mins)

The Last Bird (10 mins)

Inflatable Fools (10 mins)

The Rabbit’s Hole (10 mins)

Following the performance, the playwright will be available for a Q & A Talkback.

Note from the Playwright:     I had been interested in and drawn to the theatre arts since I was a preteen. Although, in my earlier years, I primarily focused on traditional acting and improvisational theatre. As my interests in theatre evolved, I started playwriting because I saw it as the most succinct and lively way to present my voice to the world, to add to the conversation in a language I had been cultivating for years – theatre.

I view my pieces as experimental conversation starters; I often enjoy tackling subject matter from a distorted lens to emphasize certain aspects of it. This manifests itself in absurdism, magical realism, Dadaism, existentialism, or purposeful oddness. I am particularly interested in issues of morality, family tragedy, the intangible powers of intense love or intense hatred, and more.

I have a deeply engrained love for theatre in its most traditional sense but my work blends that approach with a more contemporary and innovative stylization. In my works, this appears as dream sequences, absurdist depictions of the afterlife, abnormal memories, metatheatrical moments, extraordinary metamorphoses, and more.

The upcoming Main Stage season begins this fall with All Shook Up, a 2004 American jukebox musical with music from the Elvis Presley songbook and with a book by Joe DiPietro. Next is Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic, a 2015 original play by New York-based playwright Matt Cox. The play is a comedic retelling of the Harry Potter book series by J. K. Rowling, but from the perspective of the “Puffs”. In February 2023 comes The Waverly Gallery, a play by Kenneth Lonergan. It is considered a “memory play”. The show, first produced Off-Broadway in 2000, follows a grandson watching his grandmother slowly die from Alzheimer’s disease, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001. The last show of the season is The Jungle Fun Room, by Brian Hampton. It centers around a group of struggling actors who spend their days working children’s birthday parties at the New York City Zoo.

Tickets will go on sale this summer.