VALU-MART was a success for SRS – 5th Anniversary Season

VALU-MART was a success, being the first show of our Staged Reading Series 2007 / 2008 – 5th Anniversary Season.

Although, the turn out was alot better for saturday than it was for sunday, with understanding that there had been alot going on in our beloved city i.e. “Pride Fest, the Sox and Cubs playing each, as well as all the other attractions in the city this time of year, but nevertheless it was a success.

We thank everyone that came out and supported us.

RTC

“VALU-MART” chosen as 1st show of 5th anniversary season

We are currently celebrating our

5th Anniversary Staged Reading Series 2007 /2008

We have chosen the first play “VALU-MART”, a play written by Sean O’Leary

A synopsis -

Two black men – one, a former teacher who still cherishes the idealism of the civil rights era, and the other, a 20 year-old dropout on probation for receiving stolen property – offer compelling and conflicting perspectives on life. When they collide, the results are terrifying, uplifting, and sometimes both.
A display case key has gone missing at a mass merchandise department store. The two men and three other employees are suspected of taking the key and are detained in a break room from which they are removed one-at-a-time for questioning. Humiliated and fearful that they will all be fired if the key and the person responsible are not found, the five employees struggle to find a way out. The path they choose may be one of hope, one of surrender, or one of delusion. But, their struggle will expose the hopes, the fears, the aspirations, and the resentments that arise from five very different lives.

JT