Iowa New Play Festival

Schedule Of Events:

10:30am to 11:30am: Guest Roundtable | Anti-Hero: Revenge of the Swifties
A roundtable discussion of Anti-Hero: Revenge of the Swifties by Derick Edgren Otero.

1:30pm to 3:30pm: Leeches
Iowa New Play Festival – Reading Series Leeches By Adrian Enzastiga Directed by Natalie Villamonte Zito Leeches is a full-length play that takes place at an eviction court in an ambiguously Midwest post-pandemic U.S. city. The play explores the process of an eviction, the cycle of poverty, and the corrupt oppression of the American capitalist system: Eviction court is a no man’s land; tenants’ rights are crushed under landlord’s command, and social workers (can) do little to offer a hand...

5:30pm to 7:30pm: Spells for Going Forth by Daylight
Iowa New Play Festival – Production Series Spells for Going Forth by Daylight By Leigh M. Marshall Directed by Josh Turner Spells for Going Forth by Daylight follows Cleo, a former pharaoh of Egypt, immediately following her death. Cleo wakes up in the Egyptian realm of the dead having failed in her goal of annexing Egypt from the Roman Empire, and without her heart and book of the dead to help her navigate the realm of the dead. She tries to make her way through the realm of the dead...

9:00pm to 11:00pm: Spells for Going Forth by Daylight
Iowa New Play Festival – Production Series Spells for Going Forth by Daylight By Leigh M. Marshall Directed by Josh Turner Spells for Going Forth by Daylight follows Cleo, a former pharaoh of Egypt, immediately following her death. Cleo wakes up in the Egyptian realm of the dead having failed in her goal of annexing Egypt from the Roman Empire, and without her heart and book of the dead to help her navigate the realm of the dead. She tries to make her way through the realm of the dead...

Ticket Information
Productions
$5 general admission
Free for UI students (with ID)