DETENTION #50: 50 Shades of Detention
Saturday, May 9 at 7pm ET
via Live Stream

All Detention performances are FREE and open to the public. When you register for this event, a link to our live stream via YouTube will be included in your confirmation screen and confirmation email.

This special virtual edition of Detention is a challenging opportunity for writers to create material for a specific person, for actors to receive and perform a monologue written especially for them, and for directors to rehearse and create a performance virtually. Since it is Detention #50 and we are celebrating our 50th performance of this unique program, we are looking back at some of our favorite prompts (and adding one new prompt that is about this moment in time), and asking writers to use one of them to create monologues for their actors!

May 8 Writing Prompts: This American Detention & Love in the Time of Corona

This American Detention
In the style of This American Life, write a monologue or monologue with interstitial interviews from “eye witnesses” following the theme of New York.

Love in the Time of Corona
Write a monologue about love of any kind (partners, friends, parents, roommates) and how that love is affected or tested in this time of either extreme isolation or constant togetherness.

This Detention performance showcases the work of over 50 artists:

Playwrights: Alex Angeloch, Alice Jankell, Amy Crossman, Andrea Lepcio, Annie Dinerman, Bara Swain, Beth Bauler, Carol Berman, Caroline Aaron, Chandra Thomas, Donna Newton, Gabrielle Wagner, Heidi Armbruster, Isabella Dawis, Jenifer Kelly, Jerry Polner, John Long, Katie Mack, Laura Rohrman, Mary DeCarlo, Meredith Metcalf, Michele Miller, Rhonda Sternberg, Tasha Partee, Yasmine Lever

Actors: Amanda Leigh Bell, Annabel Capper, Ashley Marinaccio, Bonita Elery, Charles Coplin, Emily Mervosh, Gina Haver, Griffin Stanton-Ameisen, Heidi Armbruster, Isabella Dawis, Jowin Batoon, Katie Mack, Katrina Michaels, Leah Griff, Lizzy Jarrett, Mary McGloin, Matthew Jellison, Michele Baldwin, Miranda Noelle Wilson, Nancy Redman, Rachel Luciani, Sarah Ceballos, Shauna Bloom, Tara Tisch-Wallace, Whitney Edwards

Directors: Andrew Willis-Woodward, Emily Hartford, Kevaughn Harvey, Mêlisa Annis, Nicki Heskin, Sarah Rosenthal

For more information about Primary Stages ESPA or our Detention series, please visit our website or email espa@primarystages.org.

Want to see the other Detention performances for this series? RSVP here!
Detention #50: Through the Looking Glass & Love in the Time of Corona
Friday, May 8 at 7pm ET

Detention #50: April Fools & Love in the Time of Corona
Sunday, May 10 at 7pm ET